In October 2021, the Scottish Government provided dedicated funding through the Delivering Equally Safe (DES) Fund to support 12 local authorities/partnerships to progress activities to embed the Safe & Together Model between October 2021 and March 2025. At the same time, the Scottish Government provided funding to the Improvement Service to work alongside these 12 local authorities/partnerships to support them in their improvement journey, with a particular focus on generating learning on the impact that this work is having on the long term ambition to ensure that the systems, services and workforces in place across Scotland support the best possible outcomes for children and families experiencing domestic abuse.
Year Three Learning report 2023/2024
The Implementing Safe & Together in Scotland: Creating Domestic Abuse-Informed Workforces, Services and Systems year three report marked the third in the series of reports highlighting key learning about from the work that 12 local authorities/partnerships, supported through are progressing to embed the Safe & Together Model across their local areas and organisations.
Given the focus in the Year Two report (available to read below) on enablers, barriers and recommendations for sustainably embedding Safe & Together, some of which is now in progress across Scotland, the Year Three report focuses primarily on showcasing some of the available evidence of the impact that implementing the Safe & Together Model in Scotland is having on creating domestic abuse-informed workforces, services and systems.
Year Two Learning Report - 2022/2023
The Implementing Safe & Together in Scotland Year Two learning report highlights some key learning around progress made to embed the Safe & Together Model in year two the DES fund, as well as highlighting some of the emerging learning around key barriers and enablers to effectively embedding domestic abuse-informed practice across Scotland’s systems, services and workforces.
Following the publication of the year two learning report, the Improvement service, alongside the Safe & Together Institute, hosted a learning event in Edinburgh on 27 March 2024. You can watch recordings of the speakers and read the key action points from the event discussions.
Year One Learning Report - 2021/2022
The Implementing Safe & Together in Scotland Year One learning report highlight some of the early learning around progress and what is supporting the 12 DES-funded local authorities and partnerships to embed Safe & Together and domestic abuse-informed practice more widely.
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Improving outcomes for people and communities affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity: Joining the dots across key policy agendas (briefing)
There are a number of key policy agendas that are part of a broader ambition to improve outcomes for people and communities across Scotland affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity. This briefing highlights the links across these and explores opportunities for re-framing these multiple policy ambitions as opportunities to work together around the common goal of improving outcomes for people and communities.
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Improving outcomes for people and communities affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity: joining the dots across key policy agendas (infographic)
This infographic provides an overview of a small number of key national policy agendas, approaches and commitments, all designed to support a cross-policy, person-centred approach to improving outcomes for people and communities across Scotland affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity.