Freedom Programme

We offer the Freedom Programme (written by Pat Craven), which is provided and ran by our trained facilitator. The Freedom Programme is a domestic violence programme which was created by Pat Craven and evolved from her work with perpetrators of domestic violence.

The Programme examines the roles played, attitudes, beliefs and actions of abusive partners, and the responses of victims and survivors. The aim is to help attendees to make sense of and understand what has happened to them. It also describes in detail how children are affected by being exposed to this kind of abuse and how their lives are improved when the abuse is removed.

This can be offered one to one or in a group with other resident families as part of our rolling programme. The Course will examine with each parent signs of an abusive partner, so that they are able to protect themselves and their children in the future from an abusive environment. Once completed, an analysis is undertaken as to the parent(s) insight into domestic abuse and subsequently their capacity to protect their children.

The placing authority can request the Freedom Programme this within the letter of instruction, and / or it can be requested at any stage of the assessment with the authorisation of the placing authority, but must be confirmed with an email.

24-hour National Domestic Violence Freephone Helpline: 0808 2000 247