Search results for ‘Domestic violence’
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How to tackle domestic violence in times of budget cuts and council bankruptcies?
We spoke to Conservative MP Caroline Nokes who’s chairwoman of the Women and Equalities Committee. And also Farah Nazeer, who’s the Chief Executive of Women’s Aid.
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Debate: Why have Black and Ethnic minority domestic violence victims been failed by authorities?
Black and ethnic minority women who are victims of domestic violence are being failed by the authorities – and that’s contributing to them losing their lives.
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Witness Protection: the high price of safety from domestic violence
Life lived in the witness protection programme starts with the stark fact your life is in immediate danger.
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Cost of living forces domestic violence victims to stay with abusers
The cost of living crisis has left women facing an ‘impossible choice’ between staying with a domestic abuser and destitution – according to a new report by a group of charities into what they call ‘an epidemic of male violence’.
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Lack of government action on domestic violence victims ‘absolutely maddening’ says Jess Phillips
We speak to Jane Monckton-Smith, Professor of Public Protection University of Gloucestershire, whose work focuses on homicide and suicide and from Westminster Labour’s Jess Phillips, who is Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding.
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Government to publish new domestic violence strategy
The government says it will shortly publish a new cross-departmental strategy on domestic violence, focusing on crimes which mainly affect women and girls.
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Domestic violence: We need a culture where women are believed, says Tory MP
We spoke to Home Office minister for safeguarding Rachel Maclean, and started by asking how much of a difference the new amendment will make.
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Exclusive: How frontline police are tackling the domestic violence crisis
Domestic abuse is a crime that has not historically been treated as seriously as knife crime or murder.
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The hidden victims of domestic violence – the women who take their own lives
They are the hidden victims of domestic violence, the women who take their own lives.
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Current system ‘leaves the public unsafe’, says Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence Jess Phillips
We spoke to the Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, Jess Phillips.
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‘We need to reach families rather than let them disappear’ – Yvette Cooper on tackling domestic violence surge
Earlier we spoke to Labour’s Yvette Cooper, who chairs the House of Commons committee which published the report into domestic violence.
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MPs demand urgent action on domestic violence after surge in calls to helpline
Trapped in lockdown with your abuser – the reality of life for victims of domestic violence.
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Domestic violence warnings as people forced to stay at home
With the prospect of a full lockdown looming, police and charities, as we heard earlier, are warning there could be a sharp rise in domestic violence.
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Inside a refuge for male victims of domestic violence
From physical abuse to coercive control, around 700,000 victims of domestic violence are men – one in three of all victims. But campaigners say men find it especially hard to get access to support services. And even though new laws are being proposed to help survivors, they’ll be part of the Violence Against Women and…
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Deaths linked to domestic violence rising, new figures reveal
In the first in our series this week examining domestic violence, we have been talking to one family whose daughter died following an abusive relationship.
