'Safeguarding Spotlight: Domestic Abuse' Upcoming Courses Safeguarding spotlight courses are cost effective topic based sessions enabling attendees to gain the fundamental knowledge in just an hour. Face-to-Face: Unfortunately, we are not currently running face-to-face courses at our training centre Online courses: All our online courses are delivered via Microsoft Teams Wednesday 10th February (10:00am - 11:00am) Wednesday 10th February (7:00pm-8:00pm) To book a course, please find the date you desire on our booking page and select 'book now' Summary: Domestic abuse is defined as an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour, including sexual violence, often by a partner or ex-partner, but also by a family member or carer. It is very common and in the majority cases, but not exclusively, it is experienced by women and perpetrated by men.