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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

We are pleased to announce that Grampian Women’s Aid has successfully completed mentoring support with the DACA Accreditation Project. Grampian Women’s Aid began mentoring with us in September 2024. The mentoring involved specialist DACA worker training and the development of a standardised way of working with local criminal justice partners. In March 2025, only six months after the mentoring support began, Grampian Women’s Aid launched the DACA Service, offering women i

2026 marks the fourth year of the DACA project. In this time the project has created: A Domestic Abuse Court Advocacy Map To understand what DACA support looked like across Scotland in 2023, we created a ‘map’    of domestic abuse court advocacy provision. The Domestic Abuse Court Advocacy Standards We worked with lived expertise, those with professional experience and academics to create The Domestic Abuse Court Advocacy Standards The Domestic Abuse Court Advocac