MARAC: Multi-Agency Risk Assessment
What is MARAC?
MARAC, or multi-agency risk assessment conference, is a meeting where information is shared on the highest risk domestic abuse cases between representatives of local police, probation, health, child protection, housing practitioners, Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVAs) and other specialists from the statutory and voluntary sectors.
After sharing all relevant information about a victim, representatives discuss options for increasing safety for the victim and turn these options into a co-ordinated action plan. The primary focus of the MARAC is to safeguard the adult victim.
The MARAC aims to:
- Information sharing to increase the safety, health and wellbeing of victims and/or witnesses, both adults and children
- Risk identification and management
- Problem solving and action planning: encourage problem solving to jointly construct and implement action plans that provide professional support to those at risk and that reduces the risk of harm
- Multi-agency engagement: representation, engagement and effective partnership and communication by, and between, agencies
- Accountability: agencies are accountable for identifying and carrying out actions
- Integrity, openness and honesty: encourage transparency between agencies
- Creativity: encourage creative and innovative ways of working
- Best Practice: contribute to the development of best practice and identify policy issues and raise these through the appropriate channels