Domestic Abuse Strategies Consultation

Safer BCP, the Community Safety Partnership for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP), are committed to ending domestic abuse in all its forms across the BCP area. To facilitate this, we have reviewed our current domestic abuse strategies and have written three new draft strategies to cover our domestic abuse agenda in a comprehensive way.

We have used national and local research and the voices of survivors of domestic abuse and their families, to help achieve our vision that Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole is a safe area to live, work and visit.

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The Strategies

The three proposed strategies are as follows:

1. The draft Preventing Domestic Abuse Strategy 2025-2030 is the overarching strategy to our response to domestic abuse across the BCP area, detailing our proposed priorities and how we aim to take our plans forward with partnership agencies.
2. The draft Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation Strategy 2025-2030 is focused on the provision of safe accommodation in the BCP area for survivors of domestic abuse who need support around their housing needs.
3. The draft Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Strategy 2025-2030 is focused on how we respond to perpetrators of domestic abuse across the BCP area. The strategy aims to prevent people from perpetrating domestic abuse, thereby preventing the harm caused to individuals, children and society.

All the draft strategies will be accompanied by delivery plans once they have been approved, which will include actions and measurable outcomes that will enable us to measure the effectiveness of our response.

This will be monitored by the Domestic Abuse Strategic Group, which includes a variety of statutory and voluntary agencies and those with lived experience of domestic abuse.

Before we make any decisions, we would like to hear your views on these draft strategies.

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