Our consultancy often involves facilitating organisational reviews, such as: a review of Children England’s representation work; our review of evaluation strategy for Freedom from Torture and our recent review of how to build a rights and equalities based organisation for research in practice.
We regularly consult service users and providers to inform strategy, for example focus groups to inform the Prevention Strategy for North Yorkshire County Council.
Our support to organisational development has included a review of Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust’s Excellence strategy and their 'best in class' approach to providing sheltered housing.
"Coram commissioned DMSS to scan the current policy and practice environment in children’s services, as part of the work to renew our organisational strategy. They provided exactly the help we needed: contributing in-depth knowledge of the sector, strong skills in working with Coram’s management team, and a well-written paper."
Commissioner – Coram
DMSS training courses include:
Our training offer also includes courses on gender and mental health developed with our associate Dr Jennie Williams:
"Excellent course facilitators – patient and understanding, listened and supportive to us, very knowledgeable."
"The course was well structured and extremely well presented."
"A very informative, lively, thought-provoking course."
"An excellent course full of essential information I will use in my work."
Available to download as a free trainers' pack:
Asking the Question about Violence and Abuse in Adult Mental Health Assessments: A one-day training course intended to introduce mental health practitioners to the practice of routinely asking about client experiences of violence and abuse in mental health assessments.