Tackling Domestic Abuse and Violence
We will
- Protect funding to victim services and refuges
- Invest in early intervention to include healthy relationship work in schools and youth services
- Lead public health campaigns to help people recognise coercive and controlling behaviours and how to seek support
- Review access to domestic abuse services and close gaps, especially for victims who face the additional barrier of rural isolation or isolation within their community
- Support work through the Community Safety Partnership to tackle perpetrator behaviour through seeking additional funding from government or grants, not at the expense of victim services
- Have a strong policy in place to support our staff who are victims of domestic abuse or violence and deal robustly with employees who are perpetrators