Practical writing on safeguarding, professional judgement, risk identification and system learning in domestic abuse, stalking and coercive control. Drawn from independent review learning, training delivery and frontline experience.
The current debate about prisoner release has focused heavily on which offences should be excluded. But domestic abuse risk does not always sit neatly within the offence someone was convicted of. This article looks at what needs to happen when someone leaves prison, how the wider pattern of risk is recognised, and who is responsible for managing it.