It has recently been announced that the Government has set aside £80m over the next four years to tackle domestic violence including frontline work including refuges and rape crisis centres.
As reported in the Children & Young People Now publication - that "close to 200,000 initial child protection assessments during 2014/15 involved domestic violence as an identifiable factor…In total 1.35 million women experienced domestic abuse in 2014/15."
The plan will be designed to encourage new approaches to tackle domestic violence, support victims and prevent perpetrators from reoffending.
The Home Secretary Theresa May has said that "As the true scale of these crimes is revealed we need to strengthen our work to change attitudes, improve prevention and where possible rehabilitate offenders to stop reoffending….And to ensure all victims get the right support at the right time, we will drive a real transformation of service provision, providing support to local commissioners so that all areas rise to the level of the best."
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