Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence Delivery Plan – Progress Report
On 31st March 2005 the Home Office published the National Report for Domestic Violence, which laid out its plan of action for 2005/06. This report outlines the considerable progress made across the seven domestic violence work streams and how this learning can be applied to local delivery.
Title: National Report for Domestic Violence - Progress Report
Authors: Home Office
Number of pages: 80
Date published: June 2006
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This year important work on domestic violence is emerging in health, local government and criminal justice as well as the voluntary sector, all of which develops and refines responses and services for victims and perpetrators.
In relation to health, work on antenatal services, the production of a training manual for health workers and the piloting of data collection within electronic patient records of domestic violence, alcohol-fuelled violence etc.
Similarly, work carried out through the Local Government Association with local partnerships and Local Authorities identified the key role Local Authorities play to achieve the substantially revised Best Value Performance Indicator (BVPI) 225. This needs to be understood in the light of new partnership accountability arrangements and the emerging Local Area Agreements.
The voluntary sector is pivotal in providing specialised and focused services for victims and emerging work on occupational standards and the Change Up Programme for Women's Aid services and the sector as a whole will grow in significance in the coming year.
Particularly good work has taken place in the policing and criminal justice sector and guidance has been promulgated to enable the police and CPS to respond more effectively to incidents of domestic violence.
Probation continues to develop and implement their strategy, which includes having accredited domestic abuse treatment programmes running in every part of the country by April this year.
Perpetrator programmes outside of the CJS are growing in importance and principles and standards are being developed through RESPECT, which will aim to create a consistency of service to reflect that of the National Probation Service.
Co-ordinated local activities, which include the CJS, can have a major impact on achieving protection for victims and bringing perpetrators to justice. Increased charged cases and successful prosecutions of DV cases were recorded and monitored by CPS. In 2005/06 it became a work objective that 25 Specialist Domestic Violence Courts be set up or developed further by April 2006.
Significant progress has been made in the past year which has led to more focused activity to respond to domestic violence at national, regional and local level. This has led to the objectives of the National Delivery Plan being re-defined to allow for greater transparency and capture more clearly the emerging model of local delivery growing out of the Specialist Domestic Violence Court Programme.
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Last update: 14 June 2006