Information for Workers
Domestic Abuse
Web Links
National Domestic Violence Delivery Plan Annual Progress Report 2007/8: Domestic Violence accounts for 16% of all reported violent incidents. It has more repeat victims than any other crime, with repeat victimisation accounting for 73% of all incidents of domestic violence with over one in four (27%) victims having been victimised three or more times. October 2008
Women's Aid Education Toolkit - Expect Respect. A toolkit for use by teachers in schools on tackling domestic abuse. 05 November 2008
Home Office Statistical Bulletin 03/08 - Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence - 2006/07 Supplementary Volume 2 to Crime in England and Wales 2006/07 (31.01.08)
Behind Closed Doors: The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children. Unicef Report 2006
Vision for Services for Children and young people affected by Domestic Violence – CAFCASS/LGA/Women’s Aid/Leaders in Social Care.
Protecting children & vulnerable adults; The New Law on Familial Homicide Home Office Communication Directorate, May 2005
The Freedom Programme - a twleve week programme providing information about domestic violence to men and women
Swindon Community Safety Partnership Web Pages (including a page on Domestic Violence)
Swindon Sanctuary Scheme - a project that aims to make it possible for victims of domestic violence to remain in their homes and feel safer.
Articles
Beating the Wife Beaters - Guardian article about a new police scheme that uses digicams to capture evidence in domestic violence cases. 16 March 2007
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