Cornwall
Cornwall Domestic Abuse Helpline (24hrs)
01872 225629
Victim Support for Devon and Cornwall
0300 303 0554
Cornwall Women’s Refuge Trust (24hrs)
01872 225629
Esteem (support for male victims)
01872 321546
Plymouth
Plymouth Domestic Abuse Service
01752 252033
Victim Support for Devon and Cornwall
0300 303 0554
Devon
Devon’s Domestic Abuse Helpline
0345 155 1074
Victim Support for Devon and Cornwall
0300 303 0554
North Devon Against Domestic Abuse
01271 321946
Torbay
Are you ok?
(Torbay domestic abuse service)
01803 698869
Victim Support for Devon and Cornwall
0300 303 0554
We define domestic abuse as an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour, including sexual violence, in the majority of cases by a partner or ex-partner, but also by a family member or carer. It is very common. In the vast majority of cases it is experienced by women and is perpetrated by men.
Domestic abuse can include, but is not limited to, the following:
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Coercive control (a pattern of intimidation, degradation, isolation and control with the use or threat of physical or sexual violence)
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Psychological and/or emotional abuse
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Physical or sexual abuse
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Financial or economic abuse
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Harassment and stalking
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Online or digital abuse
Women’s Aid
Resources
Managing Healthy and Unhealthy Relationship Behaviours
Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
A timely resource for schools preparing for statutory RSE from September, the lessons will support your students to recognise the qualities of healthy relationships, exhibit healthy relationship behaviours, identify the features of . . .
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Myth vs Reality: PSHE toolkit
Key Stage 3
With Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) becoming statutory in all schools from September 2020, schools need practical, thoughtful and helpful resources to help them teach RSE. Myth vs Reality, our new PSHE Toolkit for 11-14s explores the . . .
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Videos
Links
Childline
Childline is here to help anyone under 19 in the UK with any issue they’re going through. You can talk about anything. Whether it’s something big or small, our trained counsellors are here to support you. Childline is free, confidential and available any time, day or night. Get help and advice about a wide range of issues, call us on 0800 1111, talk to a counsellor online, send Childline an email or post on the message boards.
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ManKind: Helping males escape domestic abuse
“Our confidential helpline is available for male victims of domestic abuse and domestic violence across the UK as well as their friends, family, neighbours, work colleagues and employers. We provide an information, support and signposting service to men suffering from domestic abuse from their current or former wife, partner (including same-sex partner) or husband. This can range from physical violence or object throwing to abuse such as constant bullying or insults.”
Operation Encompass
Our aim is to ensure that schools have timely information about all police-attended incidents of domestic abuse, no matter where in the world the child lives.
Refuge
Supporting those who have experienced violence and abuse is at the core of everything we do. No matter what your experience – domestic violence, sexual violence, ‘honour’ based violence, forced marriage, FGM, human trafficking or modern slavery – we are here to support you.
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The Hideout
Women’s Aid have created this space to help children and young people to understand domestic abuse, and how to take positive action if it’s happening to you.
Operation Encompass
Operation Encompass is a unique Police and Education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people exposed to domestic abuse.
Operation Encompass is the reporting to schools before the start of the next school day when a child or young person has been involved or exposed to a domestic abuse incident the previous evening.
The information is given in strict confidence to a school’s Key Adult to enable support to be given dependent on the needs and wishes of the child.
Operation Encompass is a Trauma Informed and Trauma Sensitive charity. We acknowledge and understand the impact of Domestic Abuse as an Adverse Childhood Experience(ACE)
Operation Encompass mitigates against the damage caused by exposure to Domestic Abuse and other ACE’s.
At last there is someone I can talk to
Are children experiencing domestic abuse a vulnerable group?
A Handbook for Schools
News
28/03/2022 : Tip-off plan to expose wife beaters as Priti Patel prepares to announce national register of domestic abusers
Daily Mail
18/02/2022 : SmartWater: The forensic spray helping keep women safe
Children and Young People Now
02/02/2022 : Warning over gaps in support for child victims of domestic abuse
Children and Young People Now
01/02/2022 : Record numbers of children affected by domestic abuse leads to call for better recovery support
NSPCC
27/01/2022 : Understanding Men Who Perpetrate Domestic Abuse
Russell Webster
Documents and Publications
Unsocial Spaces
Domestic abuse is getting ‘smarter’. When Refuge first started work 50 years ago, domestic abuse was . . .
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Domestic Abuse Act 2021
An Act to make provision in relation to domestic abuse; to make provision for and in connection with . . .
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At last there is someone I can talk to
Children are to be recognised as victims of domestic abuse in their own right in the new Domestic . . .
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Podcasts
Child to Parent Violence
This episode is about child and adolescent to parent abuse. It covers how this form of abuse is defined, what is known . . .
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Domestic abuse and Covid-19
In this episode, we discuss how social workers can best protect clients experiencing domestic abuse during the lockdown . . .
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NSPCC: why domestic abuse is a child protection issue
Find out how to improve your practice around domestic abuse when working with children and families. In this episode, we . . .
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Podcast: Partnered with a Survivor
What does it mean to give consistent consent? What is coercive control? How do you probably see it or feel it every day? . . .
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eLearning
Domestic Violence
In this Domestic Violence course you will learn of the existing legislations surrounding domestic violence in order to . . .
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