Domestic Abuse and Intervention Service: Coercive Control

1 hour online briefing for professionals on Coercive control covering the following topics:

• Definition of coercive control
• Coercive tactics
• Serious crime act 2015
• Evidence needed 
• Signs of coercive control 
• How to ask and respond

Participants will:

• Gain understanding of what Coercive control is i.e. the definition, tactics and signs. 
• Gain understanding Section 76 of Serious Crime Act 2021 which created the offence of controlling or coercive behaviour.
• Gain understanding on the signs of coercive control from both a perpetrator and victim’s behaviour 
• Gain confidence on how to recognise, ask and respond regarding coercive control.