Decommissioning of “Accredited” Duluth style programmes
In June 2022 the MOJ in the UK pulled the plug on the outrageously ineffective Duluth style programmes which had been required by recommendation to the Family Courts, by CAFCASS, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service.
Oct 11, 2026 @ 00:06:19
Very interesting development. To David Eggins: can you send me more details about this decision? I’d like to quote from it in the DV provider training we offer, thanks.
Oct 11, 2026 @ 02:34:31
Here you go David. Although it’s only related to child protection/family court services, I’m not sure if the criminal courts are following the lead. But it’s a good start.
https://transparencyproject.org.uk/wheres-me-dapps-the-end-of-perpetrators-programmes/
Oct 11, 2026 @ 08:55:11
Hi David, Daniel Sonkin has posted on the subject which I assume you will have seen. My colleague, Denise, undertook the Probation service version of the training a lot of years ago and worked in a Probation setting for as long as she could stomach it, two years I think. A further aspect of the Cafcass issue was that the so-called accredited programmes required the admission to / acceptance of ALL of the findings of fact before an individual would be accepted onto a programme. Many of the men and women we have worked with quite readily admit to several, even many of the findings, but not necessarily ALL. My view has been that part of one reason for their attendance would be to help the individuals recognise the “possibility” of those findings and also to prime them for the problems that the other 100 or so potential abuses could cause them trouble in any future relationship. There has been a steady increase in the number of cases with allegations of rape and some findings of rape, a worrying situation on many levels. Our first worry was, of course that a finding “on the balance of probability”, might be converted to a guilty verdict in a criminal court setting. That appears tohave been an unfounded worry, so far. However, a recent judgement in Scotland, facing lots of criticsm, seems to have voided the whole notion of consent, the rape being alleged and then CONFIRMED by the presence of DNA found in the female, there having been absolutely no denial of intercourse having taken place. Other interesting issues are that UIK now consists of 3 “states”, England (and N. Ireland?) Scotland and Wales, each with varying views and issues and densities of population. America, with your vast distances and 50 much less dense populations, faces perhaps some 50 very different issues.: Texas alone, for example, is about 5.5 times bigger than England with a bit more than half the population and California just over 3 times bigger and about 1/2 the population.