PACT Trainers
Kate Iwi
Kate Iwi has worked in the field of Child Protection and Domestic Violence where she has worked for the past thirty years. As well as working with perpetrators both individually and in groups, she has run co-run fathering groups, linked women’s groups and undertaken therapeutic work with children. She has been developing, undertaking and supervising family courts risk assessments in the UK since 1999 and for 5 years managed DVIP’s Children’s Services & Al-aman – a specialist DV project for Arabic speaking communities. For 7 years from 2008 she ran RESPECT’s young people’s services addressing violence and abuse used by teenagers in their close relationships and wrote the Respect Young People’s programme which has been rolled out and gain a solid evidence base across many sites in the UK. In 2000 Kate wrote a manual for Domestic Violence Interventions which is used by a number of projects around the UK and Europe.
In 2015 she took up management of the Positive Change Service – the DVA project within Tower Hamlets Social Care - where she continues to work part time managing and supervising staff and holding a small case load.
Dr Chris Newman
Chris is a director of DV-ACT-PAI, an organisation in London that provides specialist assessments and interventions in cases where domestic abuse is a child protection concern. He has 28 years of experience delivering individual work and group work with men addressing their violence and abuse to partners, in community and criminal justice settings. He has been involved in developing and delivering risk assessment and risk management interventions in family cases for over 24 years and is an acknowledged expert in this area. He provides consultation and supervision to a range of organisations working with violence in the family and has long experience of training professionals in the field. He has recently written a practice guidance for social workers dealing with cases where domestic violence is a child protection concern.
Chris has long experience of providing consultation and supervision to a range of organisations offering domestic violence perpetrator work. He has trained in creative supervision and holds SDS accreditation in Clinical Supervision Level 3 (Advanced) with Assessed Academic and Clinical Competence.
Since 2010 Chris and Kate have written a range of books and intervention manuals focusing on improving practice in the field of domestic abuse intervention work.
Kate and Chris have long experience of training other professionals and now provide independent training, supervision and consultancy. Both Kate and Chris are qualified clinical supervisors.
Others
PACT occasionally uses other equally experienced trainers to provide the specialist knowledge and experience called for by particular training courses.
Kate Iwi has worked in the field of Child Protection and Domestic Violence where she has worked for the past thirty years. As well as working with perpetrators both individually and in groups, she has run co-run fathering groups, linked women’s groups and undertaken therapeutic work with children. She has been developing, undertaking and supervising family courts risk assessments in the UK since 1999 and for 5 years managed DVIP’s Children’s Services & Al-aman – a specialist DV project for Arabic speaking communities. For 7 years from 2008 she ran RESPECT’s young people’s services addressing violence and abuse used by teenagers in their close relationships and wrote the Respect Young People’s programme which has been rolled out and gain a solid evidence base across many sites in the UK. In 2000 Kate wrote a manual for Domestic Violence Interventions which is used by a number of projects around the UK and Europe.
In 2015 she took up management of the Positive Change Service – the DVA project within Tower Hamlets Social Care - where she continues to work part time managing and supervising staff and holding a small case load.
Dr Chris Newman
Chris is a director of DV-ACT-PAI, an organisation in London that provides specialist assessments and interventions in cases where domestic abuse is a child protection concern. He has 28 years of experience delivering individual work and group work with men addressing their violence and abuse to partners, in community and criminal justice settings. He has been involved in developing and delivering risk assessment and risk management interventions in family cases for over 24 years and is an acknowledged expert in this area. He provides consultation and supervision to a range of organisations working with violence in the family and has long experience of training professionals in the field. He has recently written a practice guidance for social workers dealing with cases where domestic violence is a child protection concern.
Chris has long experience of providing consultation and supervision to a range of organisations offering domestic violence perpetrator work. He has trained in creative supervision and holds SDS accreditation in Clinical Supervision Level 3 (Advanced) with Assessed Academic and Clinical Competence.
Since 2010 Chris and Kate have written a range of books and intervention manuals focusing on improving practice in the field of domestic abuse intervention work.
- Jacana - an integrated parenting and domestic violence programme
- the KAFA manual for Lebanon’s first DVPP
- the Reprovide programme (which forms the subject of the UK’s first large scale randomised control trial of perpetrator intervention, currently being carried out by Bristol University.
- Picking up the Pieces After Domestic Violence: A Practical Resource for Supporting Parenting Skills (Jessica Kingsley; 2011)
- Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence: Practical Techniques for Early Intervention (Jessica Kingsley; 2015).
Kate and Chris have long experience of training other professionals and now provide independent training, supervision and consultancy. Both Kate and Chris are qualified clinical supervisors.
Others
PACT occasionally uses other equally experienced trainers to provide the specialist knowledge and experience called for by particular training courses.