This report presents the protocol and preliminary findings from an outcome evaluation study of the Circle South East's Non-Offending Partner Programme 'Breaking the Cycle'. The aims of the programme are to inform, empower and support the nonoffending partner of a person who has been convicted of a sexual offence against a child, and to assess the risk posed to, and the non-offending partner's ability to protect, his/her child(ren). The data presented here relates the findings from the 14 partners who both completed the programme and the psychometric measures related to the evaluation for the period between