Since we launched our free Jersey Vet Team Training earlier this month, we’ve been busy creating the Jersey-specific version of our human safeguarding professionals course, complementary to it – and it’s complimentary too!!!
Protecting Animals, Protecting People: in the Home – Jersey is a free, modular course available on our Virtual Learning hub. Learners can dip into their learning at times that are convenient to them, with their progress saved at every stage. It will take approximately an hour to complete, although individuals with previous safeguarding training may finish it more quickly. There are extra, non-compulsory components of the course which provide further sources of information. For anyone interested in taking a deeper dive, they can check out these free resources as they work through the course, or come back at a future time.
The bespoke Jersey Vet Team Training has been created in collaboration with the Government of Jersey and key stakeholders in the island to deliver Recommendation 47 of the independent Violence Against Women and Girls Taskforce’s report, ‘The issue of violence against women and girls in Jersey’.
This recommendation stated, “Veterinary professionals in Jersey should receive regular training on the link between animal abuse and domestic abuse, indicators of domestic abuse and the referral pathways available to victim-survivors on the island.”
The training is freely available to all veterinary team members in Jersey, as well as any human service and enforcement professional. Key representatives of the social work, social care, safeguarding, policing, judicial, addiction services, housing, youth services and animal welfare sectors are aware of this free training, and we look forward to welcoming many of them alongside vet teams to the in-person training days in Jersey in September 2025.
We are delighted to see that the veterinary and wider press have recognised this important aspect of an effective multi-agency response to support all victim-survivors of domestic abuse, both people and their pets and animals. Reports from the BBC, the Jersey Evening Post, the Veterinary Times and more will help us raise awareness of how we can all play our role in Protecting Animals, Protecting People.
Thank you all for your support.
Click the following link to read the News Article from Emma-Jayne Blackman: Jersey vets trained to recognise domestic abuse
