Perpetrator Programme: Respect Model
MENSCAPE offers a Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programme (DAPP) incorporating the Respect Model, including materials and programme standards (Behaviour change work). It aims to raise awareness of domestic abuse, its impact, and encouraging behaviour change. This is a structured, 24-week, one-to-one online intervention for individuals who want to take responsibility for harmful or abusive behaviour within intimate or family relationships. However, please note that MENSCAPE is not a Respect-accredited programme.
The programme is delivered by Roy Akins, an Integrative Counsellor, Respect-trained Facilitator and a qualified, registered Independent Social Worker with over 25 years of professional experience. He has worked at both practitioner and managerial levels across the Criminal Justice System, including Youth Justice, Probation, and Prisons, with extensive one-to-one experience working with perpetrators of domestic abuse across all levels of risk, alongside over five years’ experience as a Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Lead in Children’s Social Care. Subsequently, the MENSCAPE DAPP is grounded in extensive professional experience and informed by evidence-based domestic abuse practice and focuses on:
Increasing accountability for behaviour
Understanding patterns of abuse, power, and control
Developing safer alternatives to abusive responses
Reducing risk of harm to partners and children
This programme is offered to self-referring individuals, who are motivated to address harmful or abusive behaviour in their current or past relationships and are not subject to current criminal proceedings.
The work includes a structured midway review and a final review, with a written report provided to the participant on completion. The report is for personal use, outlining engagement with the work and the participant’s own reflections. It is not an assessment of risk, safety, or change, and does not provide professional opinions or recommendations. Any sharing with professionals is the participant’s choice.
MENSCAPE Perpetrator Programme Packages
24-Week Individual Behaviour Change Programme (Standard across all packages).
All MENSCAPE programme packages are delivered over 24 weeks online and include structured, consistent one-to-one work focused on accountability, behaviour change, and healthier relationships.
Flexible payment options are available across all packages.
Pre-Programme Assessment
All participants are required to complete a pre-programme suitability assessment before commencing the DAPP.
The assessment considers:
Suitability for the programme
Motivation and readiness to engage
Patterns of abusive or harmful behaviour
Relevant safeguarding and risk-related considerations
Individual circumstances and support needs
Whether MENSCAPE is an appropriate intervention
Assessment Fee - £200
The assessment fee is payable up front.
For participants who are accepted onto the programme and choose to proceed, the £200 assessment fee forms part of the total programme price and is deducted from the remaining balance.
If the programme is assessed as unsuitable, or the individual decides not to proceed following assessment, the assessment fee is non-refundable.
Following completion of the pre-programme assessment, the remaining balance (after deduction of the £200 assessment fee) is payable either in full, in two instalments (at the start and midpoint of the programme), or in 6 instalments payable every 4 weeks.
24-Week Individual Behaviour Change Programme
All MENSCAPE DAPP packages are delivered individually online and provide structured, consistent one-to-one work focused on accountability, behaviour change, safer relationships, and reducing harm to partners and children.
Flexible payment options are available for self-funded packages.
Standard DAPP
£2,150
24 sessions over 24 weeks
What’s included:
Comprehensive pre-programme assessment
24 structured one-to-one DAPP sessions
Weekly programme work and reflection
Mid-programme review
Final programme review
Final Review Report following completion
Focus
Accountability and responsibility
Recognising abusive and harmful behaviours
Understanding patterns of power and control
Understanding the impact of domestic abuse on partners and children
Emotional regulation and safer responses
Developing healthier relationship behaviours
Maintaining longer-term behaviour change
Best suited to:
Individuals ready to engage in structured behaviour-change work without additional therapeutic or coaching input.
Flexible Payment Options
Following the £200 assessment payment, the remaining £2,050 may be paid:
In full before commencement
In 2 instalments of £1,025
Or 6 instalments of approximately £341.67, payable every four weeks
Enhanced DAPP
£3,000
36 sessions over 24 weeks
The Enhanced package combines the complete 24-session DAPP with an additional 12 specialist sessions, providing further therapeutic or practical support alongside the behaviour-change programme.
What’s included:
Comprehensive pre-programme assessment
24 structured one-to-one DAPP sessions
12 additional specialist sessions
36 sessions in total
Mid-programme review
Final programme review
Final Review Report following completion
Choose one specialist pathway:
Therapeutic Counselling
Additional sessions may explore:
Personal history and trauma
Attachment and relationship patterns
Emotional triggers
Mental health and emotional wellbeing
Developing greater personal insight to support sustainable change
OR
Therapeutic Coaching
Additional sessions may focus on:
Conflict management and communication
Emotional regulation
Stress management
Applying programme learning to everyday situations
Strengthening family, work and relationship functioning
Best suited to:
Individuals who would benefit from deeper therapeutic exploration or additional structured skills-based support alongside the core behaviour-change programme.
Flexible Payment Options
Following the £200 assessment payment, the remaining £2,800 may be paid:
In full
In 2 instalments of £1,400
Or 6 instalments of approximately £466.67, payable every four weeks
Premium DAPP
£3,500
42 sessions over 24 weeks
The Premium package provides MENSCAPE’s most comprehensive level of individual support, combining the complete 24-session DAPP with 18 additional specialist sessions.
What’s included:
Comprehensive pre-programme assessment
24 structured one-to-one DAPP sessions
18 additional therapeutic and/or coaching sessions
42 sessions in total
Mid-programme review
Final programme review
Final Review Report following completion
Flexible Specialist Support
The additional sessions can consist of:
Therapeutic counselling
Therapeutic coaching
Or a combination of both
The balance of therapeutic and coaching support is agreed collaboratively and can be reviewed according to the individual’s needs and progress throughout the programme.
Best suited to:
Individuals seeking the most comprehensive level of support, combining structured behaviour-change work with therapeutic depth and practical skills development.
Flexible Payment Options
Following the £200 assessment payment, the remaining £3,300 may be paid:
In full
In 2 instalments of £1,650
Or 6 instalments of £550, payable every four weeks
Children’s Services & Local Authority Referrals
Commissioned 24-Week DAPP – £2,950
MENSCAPE accepts referrals commissioned by Local Authority Children’s Services where structured one-to-one domestic abuse behaviour-change work has been identified as appropriate.
The commissioned package reflects the additional professional liaison, documentation and reporting requirements associated with statutory-service referrals.
The commissioned package includes:
Comprehensive pre-programme suitability assessment
Review of relevant referral information and professional documentation
24 structured one-to-one DAPP sessions
Ongoing monitoring of engagement
Mid-programme review
Appropriate liaison with the referring professional
Final programme review
Written Final Review Report following completion
Where relevant information is provided by Children’s Services or other professionals, this may be considered within the participant’s programme work to support an individually responsive intervention.
Additional Professional Work
The £2,950 fee covers the standard commissioned package outlined above.
Where a referral requires substantial additional professional meetings, extensive documentation review, attendance at case conferences, bespoke reporting or other work outside the standard commissioned package, any additional costs will be discussed and agreed with the commissioning authority in advance.
Important Information About Reporting
MENSCAPE’s Final Review Report provides an account of the participant’s attendance, engagement, programme work, reflections and learning throughout the intervention.
Completion of a DAPP does not, in itself, demonstrate that risk has been eliminated or that behavioural change has occurred.
The Final Review Report therefore does not constitute a formal assessment of current risk or safety and should not be interpreted as providing a definitive professional conclusion regarding future behaviour.
For self-funded participants, the Final Review Report is provided directly to the participant, who may choose to share it with the Family Court, legal representatives, Children’s Services or other relevant professionals.
Where a programme is commissioned directly by Children’s Services or another Local Authority service, arrangements regarding professional liaison, information sharing and reporting will be agreed at the point of referral and commissioning.
Initial Consultation
An initial consultation provides an opportunity to discuss your circumstances, understand how the programme works and consider whether MENSCAPE may be appropriate.
Professionals considering a referral are also welcome to make contact to discuss the proposed intervention, suitability and commissioning arrangements prior to referral.