We need to work harder to remember the lessons from the pandemic, and how they help us build healthier communities in an even more complex reality, says Collaborate’s CEO @annarandle.
https://t.co/twDPrzinMt
Our #GeekoftheWeek goes to @HannahGousy and the team at @CommissionerDA for collating powerful data highlighting how police forces don't always treat domestic abuse and sexual violence as seriously as they should.
Watch @AnushkaAsthana explain more below 👇
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I have written to @pritipatel to thank her for the @HMICFRS report and to ask for an urgent discussion on #PolicingBill.
@HMICFRS raises concerns that the proposed Serious Violence Prevention Duty in #PolicingBill does not explicitly inc VAWG. It must.
https://t.co/aP9E59LGRp
Otherwise local areas and agencies could fail to include these crimes (especially if they refer to the serious violence strategy for a definition). After today's report Jacobs is pressing @pritipatel on this urgently - I've asked HO for response 7/7
The bill does include two crimes, to make sure local areas include them in their definitions - "violence against property" and "threats of violence". Jacobs and Bertin and others think it is urgent to make it an explicitly duty to include sexual violence and domestic abuse 6/
At the moment the policing bill doesn't list lots of crimes in the bit about this new duty for local areas because it wants councils to have flexibility espesh with regional variations. But Jacobs is clear that domestic abuse and sexual violence is everywhere 5/
Moreover around half of police forces have not put in place a programme of training around domestic abuse. And (I just can't get over this) the government's Serious Violence Strategy does not recognise domestic abuse as a form of serious violence (WTF!) 4/
Amazingly - only 8 out of 18 Violence Reduction Units in England consider domestic abuse in their serious violence strategies, with one telling the commissioner they were advised against including it on the basis of Home Office guidance 3/
The commissioner is backing an amendment laid down by the Conservative peer @BertinGabby and others calling for domestic homicide, domestic abuse and sexual violence to be explicitly included in a new duty for local areas to tackle "serious violence" 2/
NEW: The domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales @nicolejacobsST has written to the Home Secretary to call for urgent changes to the policing bill to help protect victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence 1/
If you want to find out what inspires to do my job as the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, what gets me out of bed in the morning and what I would tell my 18-year-old self then please watch this film.
It's part of a new series that @ukhomeoffice has launched.
Hope you like it!
“We have to do so much more to end Domestic Abuse.”
📲 We caught up with @nicolejacobsST, the first ever @CommissionerDA for England and Wales.
#YouAreNotAlone 💜
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“[Specialist courts] are able to present information clearly and they consider the experience of the victim.”
Domestic Abuse Commissioner @nicolejacobsST says specialist courts produce better outcomes when it comes to dealing with domestic violence, avoiding bias
#Newsnight
Over the last 18 months, @CollaborateCIC have been working with @HomelessLink to understand how ideas about systems change can help those working to improve local responses to homelessness.
Read all about it here ⬇️
https://t.co/IZvbcF8uH0