This month we were really pleased to see the publication of the Home Office’s Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan which aims to drive down the prevalence of domestic abuse and domestic homicide and provide victims and survivors with the support they need. We continue to be involved in a range of research, evaluation and advisory around whole system approaches and programmes and services that aim to support improve outcomes for victims and survivors of domestic abuse. For more information about this work and to access a range of resources and publications please click here.

In addition, we were also commissioned along with the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner as part of the Home Office Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Research Fund 2020/2021 to conduct research into Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programmes. We plan to publish outputs from this research on the Cordis Bright website in May.

As part of this research, we have collaboratively developed with experts in the sector a toolkit to support local needs assessments around the commissioning of perpetrator programmes and projects. We were pleased to see this mentioned in the Home Office’s Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan and to see the commitment from the Home Office to support a wider rollout of the toolkit so all local areas can benefit.

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