Are MARACs Effective for Harmful Practices? Research Paper and Toolkit

This paper examines the effectiveness of MARACs for harmful practices, and focuses on 5 key areas, identifying concerns and gaps, as well as exploring alternative ways of working:  

  • Professional understanding of harmful practices in MARAC Settings

  • The value of by and for agencies to MARAC and how this impacts harmful practices cases

  • Reconstructing the structure of MARAC for harmful practices cases

  • Harmful practices as a referral criteria for MARAC

  • The value of collecting MARAC data on harmful practices

The paper is accompanied by a toolkit which supports MARACs to improve practice for harmful practices cases.

MARAC and Harmful Practices Case Studies

MARAC Models Guidance

Guide to Harmful Practices Models

Guidance for MARAC Reps, Chairs and Co-ordinators

Data Collection Guidance

In 2021 the University of Suffolk produced a briefing paper, using data from a local Harmful Practices Operational Group co-chaired by AWRC and co-ordinated by Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse:

Responding to Harmful Practices against Women and Girls in London: the potential of a data-driven and intersectional approach.

In 2023 Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse produced a paper exploring MARAC data and harmful practices:

Harmful Practices Cases at Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea MARACs: What Does the Data Tell Us?