…needed to rebuild public trust in the institution that is supposed to protect us and instil confidence in their responses. However, today’s announcement does not do enough to address deep-rooted…
…the police have increased over the previous year, which continues a trend likely to reflect improved recording. With around only one in five women reporting abuse to the police (ONS…
…to domestic abuse. It also demands increased leadership accountability to address the police, health, and welfare responses to domestic abuse, working in partnership with specialist organisations and backed by sufficient…
…about different options available to you. Keep with you any important and emergency telephone numbers, such as: Your local domestic abuse service Police domestic violence unit GP Social worker Children’s…
…services work to continually improve understandings of and responses to domestic abuse across society, keeping communities safe and saving money. They advocate for survivors to receive the holistic and longer-term…
…survivors, many of which the APPG has covered before, including access to justice in the criminal courts, experiences of the family courts and child contact arrangements, effective police responses to…
…what they would like to happen next. That’s why Women’s Aid developed Change that Lasts. It places the survivor at the heart and builds responses around her needs and the…
…women who do not feel safe at home. It is vital that all police officers and prosecutors truly understand coercive control as the backbone of domestic abuse and the damaging,…
…an abuser, to police forces to ensure that women receive the right response first time. Both the criminal and family courts, and all agencies working within them, need ongoing and…
…going to be there anymore. I never got in trouble with the police doing that because the police don’t stop girls. There were times when I would be holding something…
