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Last week on the 1st of October Shetland DACA service launched. This is the first DACA service catering for an Island community and will also be the first DACA service to regularly be present in a local Sheriff Court. The Shetland DACA Service is available to women living in Shetland with a criminal court case progressing or likely to start, where the accused is the women's partner or ex-partner and the women is the complainer in the case. The professionally qualified Shetla

Over the past six months, the Domestic Abuse Court Advocacy (DACA) Accreditation Project has continued to make strong progress across training, accreditation, mentoring and partnership working. This update shares some of the key developments including our latest SQA-accredited training, readiness assessment visits with services, publication of the Companion Report, and ongoing mentoring support for services developing DACA provision. The project team has been working closely

Between October 2022 and February 2024, an extensive programme of research and engagement was completed by the DACA Accreditation Project to understand the requirements for the Domestic Abuse Court Advocacy Standards. It involved a review of academic literature, engagement with people with lived expertise and professionals across criminal justice and domestic abuse services. The academic literature, the interviewees and professionals all painted a clear picture; domestic ab