Community Payback Order: Programme

Interventions suitable for

Men who use domestically abusive behaviours in their intimate partner relationships

Programme title and provider

Up2U Creating Healthy Relationships
Domestic abuse perpetrator groupwork programme

Details of all Specific national or local scheme/intervention(s) available

Up2U is an innovative, evidence based, perpetrator programme.
It uses a goal-orientated, strengths-based, motivational model to engage individuals, working with their resistance to build strong therapeutic relationships to optimise their commitment to the programme to build safe and healthy relationships.
Up2U recognises that people are abusive for different underlying reasons ranging from power and control (Duluth Model), learned behaviour, attitudes that promote male dominance and lack of emotional regulation.
It is an assessment led approach responding to individual risk, need and responsivity.
The programme is for men who use domestically abusive behaviours in their intimate partner relationships.
It is suitable for men age 16+ and for people in same sex relationships – who are subject to a standard supervision requirement within a Community Payback Order or license condition.
The programme is aimed at assisting men to:

• Recognise and stop using abusive behaviours
• Learn how to cope with and manage overwhelming feelings
• Learn to manage the way they think, feel and then act

And assist them in having:

• Healthier relationships
• Children who are less exposed to trauma
• A better understanding of themselves and their emotions
• Less involvement with the police and other services

This programmed approach offers a tailored package of intervention to address harmful behaviour.
Modules and sessions delivered to each individual will be matched to their typology and need with modules and sessions selected from:
Module 1 Engagement and Assessment
Module 2 Thinking, Feeling and Behaviour
Module 3 Relationships
Module 4 Skills for Change
Targeted Sessions
Module 5 – Stalking Behaviours
Module 6 – Unhealthy Sexualised Behaviours
Module 7 – Skills for Change
Module 8 – Abuse and Substance Misuse

Possible Outcomes

Assists participants to recognise and stop using abusive behaviours; learn how to cope with and manage overwhelming feelings, learn to manage the way they think, feel and then act. It can also result in healthier relationships; children being less exposed to trauma; a better understanding of themselves and their emotions as well as less involvement with the police and other services.

Process for Assessment and/or inclusion in scheme/intervention

The programme is for men who use domestically abusive behaviours in their intimate partner relationships. It is suitable for men age 16+ and for people in same sex relationships – who are subject to a standard supervision requirement within a Community Payback Order or license condition.

Interventions suitable for

Men convicted of a sexual offence and sentenced to a Community Payback Order

Programme title and provider

Moving Forward Making Changes (MFMC)
Justice Social Work Services

Details of all Specific national or local scheme/intervention(s) available

Moving Forward Making Changes (MFMC) is rooted in the ‘Good Lives Model’ (GLM) for offender rehabilitation. The Good Lives Model assumes that everyone wants certain primary goods in their life but that, for offenders, this desire manifests itself in harmful ways due to a range of deficits in the offender and/or their environment. It is designed to be delivered in a group format, although it can also be delivered 1:1or 2:1. It is based on ‘rolling groups’ – men join the group at different times and can be at different stages of the programme at the same time.

Possible Outcomes

Assists participants to recognise and stop using sexual behaviours and to lead a satisfying life, which does not involve harm to others. It will also help participants to: reduce offending; increase self-confidence and self-esteem; improve relationships, and identify positive goals and the steps to achieve them.

Process for Assessment and/or inclusion in scheme/intervention

Where a man has been convicted of a sexual offence and the Court defers sentence for Criminal Justice Social Work Reports, eligibility for the programme will be assessed and included in the report based on age, patterns of offending and risk. Once sentenced to a Community Payback Order or License condition the man is assessed on an on-going basis by a Criminal Justice Social Worker in consultation in relation to suitability for progression onto the MFMC group work programme. This assessment will again take into account areas such as patterns of offending, risk of harm / re-offending and motivation to change.