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Publications Publications

Home Office Circular 53/2004 PDF 48Kb
Primary Care Trusts: Guidance on Commencement of Responsible Authority Status Within Partnerships and Table 1: Responsible Authorities, Co-operating bodies and Invitees to participate PDF 20Kb

Developing Domestic Violence Strategies – A Guide for Partnerships
Home Office Guidance to support Partnerships in developing successful strategies

Safety and Justice: Sharing Personal Information in the Context of Domestic Violence- An Overview
The Home Office Development and Practice Report.

Primary care Trusts:  Guidance on Commencement of responsible authority status within partnerships.

Reducing Violence Against Women Initiative - Guidance for Agencies: Collecting and Managing Data PDF 198Kb
The initiative aims to reduce violence against women by targeting two types of violence experienced by women: domestic violence and rape and sexual assault by known perpetrators.

Domestic Violence Leaflet
Advice leaflet for victims of domestic violence.

Home Office guidance on Audits and Strategies. 
This also contains advice on how to deal with domestic violence- and can be accessed through the print PDFs section/ Annex A

Domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking: Findings from the British Crime Survey (2004) PDF 398Kb

Domestic Violence: Findings from a New British Crime Survey Self-Completion Questionnaire(1996) PDF 568Kb

Violence at Home: PDF 854Kb
A joint thematic report on the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence cases.   A Joint publication by HMCPSI and HMIC.  ACPO response to the report.

Evaluation of Specialist Domestic Violence Courts/Fast Track Systems.  PDF 1,790Kb
A CPS/DCA report evaluating the effectiveness of five domestic violence specialist court systems.  

The Use of Expert Witness Testimony in the Prosecution of Domestic Violence. PDF 287Kb
A CPS publication.

Living Without Fear
An integrated approach to tackling domestic violence.

Action Plan - July 2002
To implement the recommendations of the HMCPSI/HMIC joint investigation into the investigation and prosecution of cases involving allegations of rape.

Multi-Agency Guidance for Addressing Domestic Violence
Guidance to Government departments and agencies to addressing domestic violence effectively.

Policing Domestic Violence: Effective Organisational Structures PDF 152Kb
Looks at role of specialist domestic violence officers within the force structure, practices in place for monitoring performance and ways in which information on incidents is communicated between officers.

Reducing Domestic Violence: What Works? briefing notes
A series of reviews examining what works in tackling domestic violence.

Preventing Domestic Violence to Women PDF 145Kb
Reviews the role of the Police and other agencies, particularly those based in the community.

Domestic Violence: A Resource Manual for Health Care Professionals.

Making it Count PDF 107Kb
A Practical Guide to Collecting and Managing domestic violence data from the Nacro website

The Stella Project
The Stella Project promotes good practice and supports direct service providers across the drug, alcohol and domestic violence sectors in Greater London.

The Stella Project was launched in December 2002. One of the recommendations that emerged from the Stella Project Launch Seminar was the need for guidance, models of good practice and training to support both sectors in developing their services.

This toolkit has been developed as the first step in responding to these needs. The Stella Project hopes to continue to support both sectors through training, events and assisting in the development of good practice guidelines.

Domestic Violence and Children Bullying – Good Practice Guidelines
When developing bullying initiatives, it is important for schools to also consider the issue of domestic violence as the two issues are closely linked.

This toolkit provides good practical guidelines on how to raise the issue of domestic violence in the classroom

Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill
Available on the UK Parliament website.

Domestic Violence: findings from a new BCS self-completion questionnaire – January 1999 PDF   37Kb
A report from the Research, Development and Statistics Directorate synthesizing results from the British Crime Survey self-completion section on domestic violence.

A question of evidence? Investigating and prosecuting rape in the 1990s -1999 PDF 658Kb
Home Office Research Study 196.

Policing Domestic Violence: effective organisational structures – 1998 PDF   153Kb
This report from the Policing & Reducing Crime Unit looks at role of specialist domestic violence officers within the force structure, practices in place for monitoring performance and ways in which information on incidents is communicated between officers.

Violence Against Women Initiative – Project Summaries - 2002
A summary of successful VAWI projects.

Domestic Violence Matters: An evaluation of a development project – 1999 PDF  613Kb
A Home Office Research Study, Domestic Violence Matters (DVM) is an adaptation of a Canadian project – the Family Consultancy Service (London, Ontario) – and involves locating a team of skilled civilian crisis interveners within the police service to follow up police responses to domestic violence.

Arresting Evidence: Domestic Violence and Repeat Victimisation – 1999 PDF   414Kb
Police research series paper 104 on domestic violence and repeat victimization.

Preventing Domestic Violence to Women – 1994 PDF 180Kb
Reviews the role of the Police and other agencies, particularly those based in the community.

Joined Action Plan on Forced Marriage PDF 283Kb

 

Last update: 30 September 2005