Helping navigating this site - professionals engaging with Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs)

Do you attend Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs)? Are you a frontline professional who regularly refers victims to a local MARAC? If so, this site contains a wealth of information and resources which are relevant to you.

For a list of frequently asked questions in relation to MARAC, click here.

If you are a frontline worker involved in victim risk assessment and referrals to MARAC in England and Wales, download one of our frontline professional Risk Identification Toolkits to help you with your day to day work. Click here for Northern Ireland versions.

Anyone attending MARAC can download our specific Toolkits for Chairs, Co-ordinators and Representatives, as well as administrative, record keeping and data collection resources for MARAC work, by visiting the practitioner resources section. Click here for Northern Ireland versions.

If you attend your local MARAC, you may be interested in finding out more about CAADA's MARAC implementation training. Aimed at middle manager MARAC representatives, Chairs and Co-ordinators (rather than frontline professionals), this training demonstrates how to run a robust and safe MARAC to support high risk victims in the most effective way. Click here to find out more about CAADA's MARAC implementation training.

Once local MARACs have progressed through the CAADA implementation training, they're eligible to take part in CAADA's quality assurance process. This development programme is the only scheme in the UK designed to promote 'gold standard' practice in and around Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC). Click here to learn more about the MARAC quality assurance process.

MARAC champions training is a one day course which aims to cascade general awareness of risk identification, information sharing and the MARAC process throughout individual public and voluntary agencies and across the local area. Attendents are empowered by this course to deliver training to their own practitioner colleagues, thereby spreading awareness of MARACs operating in their local area and increasing buy in from all agency staff.

The research section of this website contains a variety of reports relating to the effectiveness of MARAC, as well as more general research on Independent Domestic Violence Advocacy (IDVA) services.