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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

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