This education session is being delivered as part of the GP Fellowship Education Programme and is open to Cambridgeshire and Peterborough GPs who are enrolled on the GP Fellowship Scheme, or who are within their first 5 years of practice.

For our November education session, Vickie Crompton, Domestic Abuse & Sexual Violence Partnership Manager, and Lesley Rich, Senior IDVA for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Health IDVA Team will be joining us to provide an understanding of Domestic Abuse including:

  • What is domestic abuse?
  • What is coercive and controlling behaviour?
  • How to ask, identify, respond?
  • What resources are available?
  • How to refer to support services?
  • What do the support services do?

Speaker profiles:

Vickie Crompton is Domestic Abuse & Sexual Violence Partnership Manager and has been responsible for the partnership response to domestic abuse and sexual violence in Cambridgeshire for over a decade. She is also responsible for commissioning refuges and domestic abuse outreach support.

Her service includes the delivery of the Independent Domestic Abuse Advisor (IDVA) service as well as the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) for those who are at risk of significant harm or homicide. Vickie also co-ordinates all the Domestic Homicide Reviews across the area.

Lesley Rich is Senior IDVA for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Health IDVA Team. She has extensive experience of working with families, before coming to the IDVA service and working in the Fenland area. Lesley was promoted to Senior IDVA and asked to lead the team who support our colleagues in the health sector and support a range of clients subjected to domestic abuse and referred in by health practitioners.