Consultancy
At STADA we provide bespoke consultancy and expert guidance to help organisations across various sectors strengthen their response to domestic abuse and VAWG. Our specialists work with you to identify areas for improvement, enhance safeguarding practice, and build confidence in supporting those affected by abuse.
Our consulting services include:
Comprehensive assessments of your current domestic abuse and/or VAWG policies, procedures and practices
Gap analysis to identify risks, inconsistencies or missed opportunities in your response
Practical, evidence based recommendations to enhance outcomes for individuals impacted by domestic abuse
Support with implementation, ensuring changes are meaningful, sustainable, and embedded across your organisation
All our work is:
Survivor‑centred,
- Trauma‑informed,
- Aligned with UK safeguarding and statutory guidance
We specialise in:
Strategy Development & Assessment
- Domestic Abuse and VAWG Needs Assessments
- Domestic Abuse and VAWG Strategies
- Domestic Abuse Act 2021 Part 4 Needs Assessments and Strategy Development
- DARDR / DHRS Thematic Reviews
- MARAC Review and Improvement Support
- Governance Structure Design and Strengthening
Policy, Frameworks & System Design
- Creation of Domestic Abuse Policies, Protocols, and Organisational Frameworks
- DAHA (Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance) Preparation and Support
- Whole Housing Approach Implementation
- Sanctuary Scheme Development and Support
- Specialist Domestic Abuse Courts Guidance
Practice Improvement & Case Review
- Case Scrutiny Panels with expert recommendations
- Practice improvement support for:
- Children’s Services
- Adult Services
- Health Teams
- Criminal Justice Agencies
- Police Domestic Abuse Response
- Housing and Homelessness Services
- Action planning and targeted interventions to strengthen consistency, safety and outcomes
- Strengthening organisational responses to children and young people as victims in their own right
- Children’s Voice and Journey Mapping to improve service design
- Survivor Voice & Lived Experience Insight
- Integrating survivor voice into governance, monitoring and decision making
- Meeting Domestic Abuse Act duties relating to survivor voice
- Survivor Journey Mapping to drive service improvement and accountability
Training & Workforce Development
- Bespoke Training and Workshops (link to training page)
- Community Coordinated Response Leaders’ Course
- Workforce development focusing on domestic abuse awareness, confidence, and trauma informed practice
Resources:
Domestic Abuse and VAWG needs assessments
Domestic Abuse and VAWG strategies
Creation of Domestic Abuse policies, protocols, and frameworks for organisations to ensure effective support
Governance structure support and design
DARDR / DHRS thematic reviews
Sanctuary scheme support
MARAC review and support
Training / Training workshops (link to training page) [ES1.1]
Community Coordinated Response Leaders course [ES2.1]
Children and young people – support and understanding them as victims in their own right
Specialist Domestic Abuse Courts
Survivor voice / Children’s voice and journey maps
DAHA
Whole Housing Approach
What this achieves:
We can help to reduce costs to areas by improving response to domestic abuse
Improve workforce response, reduce absenteeism due to domestic abuse in internal workforces
Form to complete for queries:
Data and Evaluation
Our Data & Evaluation Team bring a high level of skill and expertise to everything they do. They are exceptional analysts who can take complex information, make sense of it, and turn it into clear, meaningful insights. With experience across both quantitative and qualitative methods, the team are brilliant at pulling together large datasets, spotting patterns and trends, and producing reports that are credible, robust, and genuinely useful. Their work directly informs our consultancy offer as well as our internal programmes, helping us make decisions that are evidence led and rooted in what we are really seeing on the ground.
Their work crosses a range of projects, including:
- Crossing Pathways Evaluation – providing a detailed assessment of programme outcomes, service integration, and impacts on people’s experiences, using analysis to generate rich, actionable findings.
- Review of the Housing First Project – conducting an evaluation of the project, fidelity to Housing First principles, and outcomes for participants, helping commissioners strengthen approaches to complex needs and homelessness.
- Whole Housing Approach Collaboration – working alongside external evaluators to produce a comprehensive evidence base on housing system responses, and the impact of specialist interventions for those at risk of domestic abuse.
Across all projects, our Data & Evaluation Team bring together methodological skills with an ability to communicate findings in a clear, accessible way. Their reports support organisations to understand what works, why it works, and how services can be improved, ensuring that our consultancy offer is always grounded in strong evidence and real-world learning.