Kennedy Potts Training Associates (KPTA)

Susan Kennedy & Dave Potts formed KPTA in 1998 due to a shared desire to utilise their separate and combined extensive experience of working with domestic abuse, particularly with male perpetrators, in order to provide co-gendered training and consultancy. While we have since broadened our areas of training, our main focus and area of expertise remains domestic abuse work.

KPTA's domestic abuse work
In our domestic violence work, KPTA's aim is to protect women and children by focusing on men through:

• Providing a co-gendered andwomencentred approach
  
  
• Promoting evidence based and effective practice
  
  
• Creating a safe environment in which workers can explore complex and sensitive issues
• Recognising the impact of interventions on staff
  
  
• Identifying masculinity as a criminogenic factor
  
  
• Keeping up to date with research and practice developments
  
  
• Enhancing relationships with womens' support services

SINCE 1998, KPTA have provided consultancy to several probation boards, independent sector agencies, domestic violence fora and community safety teams on their domestic violence service provision.We have also developed and delivered a range of training events to practitioners and managers on areas such as risk assessment, skills development and effective interventions in domestic violence work.

We are providing a 'critical friend' review of community safety strategy documents, drafting implementation plans and consulting on the general development of domestic abuse protection work and the specific establishment of perpetrator programmes.

KPTA have also conducted a number of specialist assessments and individual programmes of work for CAFCASS and Social Services in cases where domestic violence is a feature in child protection or child access cases.

KPTA's other training includes:

• Pro-social modelling in prisons: both directly training senior and middle managers, and also training trainers to cascade the package to other prison staff
  
  
• Motivational interviewing for psychologists, probation personnel and other community or prison based staff
  
  
• Co-worker training for teams delivering interventions to offenders and/or developing interagency links
  
  
• We have also piloted a manual for the delivery of Pro-social Modelling training for prisoners and trained prison staff in its delivery
  
  
• Effective personal office training for prison staff

KPTA can also deliver workshops on:

Services we can provide:

• Bespoke training events, single or multi-agency, to meet your needs
  
  
• Consultancy to practitioners, managers and strategic planners
  
  
• Advice on, preparation or drafting of protocols, implementation plans and interagency partnerships
  
  
• Specialist assessments and individually tailored interventions for male perpetrators
  
  
• The development of training manuals and the preparation of staff to deliver them
  
  
• Training for trainers
  
  
• Offender group-work programme development
  
  
• Development and implementation of domestic violence perpetrator programmes
  
  
• Training which is informative, interactive, safe and engaging