Workshop 1 England – Women’s Aid Expect Respect Education Toolkit – Nicola Harwin (CE) and Nicki Norman (DCE) Women’s Aid England

The Expect Respect Education Toolkit consists of one easy-to-use ‘Core’ lesson for each year group from Reception to year 13 and is based on the themes that have been found to be effective in tackling domestic abuse. The presentation will focus on how the toolkit was developed and the plans for rolling it out across England.

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PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY

Nicola Harwin CBE
Nicola Harwin is Chief Executive of Women's Aid.  With over 30 years experience of developing and providing local and national services, and multi-agency working, Nicola has played a key role in monitoring and responding to legislation and policy affecting abused women and children, including responding to numerous government consultations, working as an expert advisor with a wide range of statutory and voluntary bodies, and acting as a consultant to several research projects into domestic violence.  She is the author of numerous publications: advice leaflets for survivors, training resources and handbooks on a range of topics for service providers, briefing papers for government and the public, and contributions to recent and forthcoming books.  From 2000 to 2006, Nicola was a Commissioner on the Women’s National Commission, the UK Government’s Advisory Body on Women.  Since 2000, Nicola has also been active in several international projects to address violence against women issues, and has worked with non-Government organisations (NGOs) and Government partners in Russia, China, Uzbekistan and numerous European countries.

Nicki Norman
Nicki Norman has 17 years direct experience of providing, managing and developing local domestic violence services in a range of settings. She worked for a Women's Aid project in Coventry, providing direct services to survivors of domestic violence, for 7 years. She then went on to work for a homeless organisation and then a supported housing project, developing dedicated domestic violence services in both. These included survivor support groups, counselling, refuge, outreach, crisis and children's services.  Throughout this time, Nicki has been an active member of the local domestic violence partnership, contributing to local multi agency training on domestic violence and other initiatives. She has also been a Practice Teacher, training and assessing Social Work students, and has volunteered for a local LGBT sexual health service.
More recently, Nicki worked for a housing association, managing their supported housing projects in Bristol for a short while, before seizing the opportunity to join the national Women's Aid office and work fully and directly with domestic violence related issues again.  Currently, Nicki is the Deputy Chief Executive for Women's Aid Federation England.