A MARAC is a collaborative review process bringing together various agency partners, across health, safeguarding and voluntary sectors, to share information and derive vital lessons in the event of a high-risk domestic abuse case. The MARAC process focuses heavily on working together to determine solutions that will manage and increase the safety of victims of violence and abuse, better understand the risk posed by perpetrators on both victims and the general public, and implement actions to be taken as a result of the case to ensure accountability and work towards the prevention of similar occurrences.

The review process can often-times rely heavily on administrative, manual tasks such as completing DASH forms, organising MARAC meetings, assigning and tracking progress of actions and collating information for a SafeLives report to name just some aspects of the manual, resource intensive process. In addition, the information related to the case is more often than not spread out across different emails, word documents, spreadsheets and even various paper documents too. Not only does this weigh heavily on time resources, but information being stored in emails and across paperwork also compromises the security of that sensitive data.