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Domestic Abuse Domestic Violence Effects of/surviving violence Evaluation Violence Against Women
Living at the edge
In May 2021, the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) were commissioned by Southall Black Sisters to produce an evaluation of the Home Office’s Support for Migrant Victims pilot programme (SMV pilot) and to document the experiences and support needs of migrant victim-survivors of domestic abuse, particularly foregrounding the
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Domestic Violence Effects of/surviving violence Violence Against Women Young People
VAWG Strategy
Further information coming soon….. Contact cwasu@londonmet.ac.uk for details
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Domestic Violence Harassment Protection Self Defence
Safe Together
Project team: Prof Liz Kelly Dr Maria Garner For further information contact cwasu@londonmet.ac.uk
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Domestic Violence Effects of/surviving violence Evaluation Support Projects
Big Lottery Fund – Women and Girls Initiative
CWASU continued their Big Lottery funded work on Women and Girls Initiative (WGI), in partnership with The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and DMSS Research, to deliver evaluation and learning support to the 63 projects funded by the Big Lottery Fund to support and empower women and girls facing violence, abuse, exploitation and mental health issues
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Domestic Violence
Domestic Homicide Reviews
Nicola Sharp-Jeffs and Liz Kelly from CWASU worked with Standing Together Against Domestic Violence to analyse the Domestic Homicide Reports of 32 reviews chaired by their associates. Six thematic areas arose: § Victim/perpetrator contact with General Practitioners (GPs) § Mental health § Safeguarding adults
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Civil Justice Domestic Abuse Domestic Violence Orders Protection Removal
Evaluation of the Pilot of Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs)
Funded by the Home Office, this evaluation was carried out in partnership with the Forensic Psychological Services, Middlesex University. Evaluation of the Pilot of Domestic Violence Protection Orders Research Report 76 London Metropolitan University & Middlesex University: Liz Kelly, Joanna R. Adler, Miranda A. H. Horvath, Jo Lovett, Mark Coulson,
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Domestic Violence Policy Training Violence Against Women
Co-ordinated responses to violence against Women and Girls: an online resource
This project was commissioned by UN Women (formerly UNIFEM), to develop online guidance on the principles and process of co-ordinating responses to violence against women and girls. The guidance draws on promising practices from around the globe, and includes case studies from Europe, UK, Africa and the US. For the
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Domestic Violence Effects of/surviving violence Rape Support Projects Violence Against Women Young People
Realising Rights: Case studies on state responses to violence against women and children in Europe
CWASU led this partnership between the University of Osnabrück, the German Institute for Human Youth Services and Family Law (DIJuF) and Tilburg University (INTERVICT – International Victimology Institute). Realising Rights (RRS) was funded by the EU DAPHNE III programme and explores both fields of violence. Its aims were: – to
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Domestic Violence Rape Research Violence Against Women
Mapping Needs: Violence Against Women Services in Britain
This project was funded by the EHRC as a companion to Map of Gaps 1 & 2, starting not from what currently exists, but what the levels of actual/potential support needs are, in order to develop a model for local authorities to calculate optimum levels of provision. A partnership project
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Criminal Justice System Domestic Violence Policy Violence Against Women
Risking Our Lives: Intimate Partner Homicide in Ireland
Intimate partner homicide (IPH), the murder of a person by their (ex) partner, is an under-explored issue. Globally, the majority of victims of IPH are women, and perpetrators men; with IPH the leading cause of violent death for women (UN, 2006). New approaches to addressing IPH in the US and
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Domestic Violence Effects of/surviving violence Policy Rape Research Support Projects Violence Against Women
Map of Gaps: The Postcode Lottery of Violence Against Women Support Services
Map of Gaps shows graphically for the first time the real postcode lottery in violence against women support services such as Rape Crisis Centres and domestic violence refuges. A third of local authorities across the UK do not have specialised services, leaving many women without the support they deserve. Completed
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Domestic Violence Research Violence Against Women
Norfolk Domestic Violence Homicide Review
CWASU was commissioned by the Norfolk Domestic Violence Homicide Steering Group to complete phase II of this research project. This project aimed to examine and experience the needs of families of the five domestic violence homicide victims, and to examine the experience and needs of the perpetrators to ascertain what
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Domestic Violence Policy Statistics Violence Against Women
Service Mapping Project
The project funded by the Roddick Foundation involves mapping the provision of VAW services across the nations and regions of the UK. We are using GIS systems to locate services geographically, producing maps which can go down to local authority boundaries, as well as provide an overall picture. Intended as
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Domestic Violence Evaluation Health Policy Prostitution Support Projects
Evaluation of the WORTH Project
The WORTH Project is a multi-agency funded pilot project at a hospital, that is currently training all relevant staff in the Accident and Emergency and Maternity Departments to undertake screening for domestic violence. The Project will also provide specially-trained staff based within the hospital, who will offer a wide range
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Children Domestic Violence Training Violence Against Women Young People
Trust Education Theatre Project
The Trust Education Theatre Project was commissioned by ‘Until the Violence Stops’, a campaigning and educational organisation. The objective of the project was to change attitudes of tolerance to violence by using drama to explore issues around healthy and unhealthy relationships. The Trust aimed: To explore young people’s expectations of
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Criminal Justice System Domestic Violence Research Violence Against Women
ACPO Risk Assessment Evaluation
Risk assessment has become an increasingly significant aspect of police work in relation to domestic violence. The London Metropolitan Police developed a risk assessment process, as the result of findings from a project on Domestic Violence Murder Reviews for London in 2003. This risk assessment has been implemented in a
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Definitions Domestic Violence Research Support Projects
Effective awareness raising in cases of domestic violence
This report is the result of a small research project commissioned by The Women and Equality Unit, Department of Trade and Industry. Using focus groups, the study was designed to explore what information and messages are of most use to women wishing to escape domestic abuse. Seven focus groups were
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Domestic Violence Health Policy Research Support Projects
The Links Between Domestic Violence and Substance Misuse
This project, jointly funded by the Home Office and the Greater London Authority (GLA) aimed to; identify strategies for progression practice and policy through building upon the developing practice in both sectors; explore the overlap between domestic violence and substance use by men and women who are accessing services in
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Domestic Violence Evaluation Health Policy Support Projects
Evaluation of the Portsmouth Domestic Violence Early Intervention Project (EIP)
EIP is a pilot project based in Portsmouth that aims to reduce repeat victimisation by providing support and information about the options available to anyone experiencing domestic violence at the point of crisis. It seeks to do this by training hospital staff in Accident and Emergency and Maternity Departments to
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Domestic Violence Support Projects Violence Against Women
Evaluation of the Portsmouth Early Intervention Project
This project is an ongoing evaluation of the Portsmouth Domestic Violence Early Intervention Project (EIP). EIP is a pilot project based in Portsmouth that aims to reduce repeat victimisation by providing support andinformation about the options available to anyone experiencing domestic violence at the point of crisis. The project
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Domestic Violence Health Rape Violence Against Women
Forensic Nurse pilot at the St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre
The St. Mary’s forensic nursing pilot was conducted as part of the Linked National Evaluation of Sexual Assault Referral Centres project (See below). St. Mary’s is one of seven Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) in England. This pilot project was the first of its kind in the U.K. The
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Domestic Violence Europe Perpetrators Support Projects Training
Best practice Training and Materials for Working with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence and Their (ex) Partners
Domestic Violence Intervention Project (DVIP) In January 2000 DVIP and its European partners received Daphne funding for a project which aims to promote best practice with regard to domestic violence intervention both within the UK and across other European countries. The first stage of the project involved DVIP producing a
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Domestic Violence Rape Violence Against Women Young People
Young Women’s Vulnerabilities and Needs- An Internal Briefing Document
This review of what is known about violence against young women was prepared by way of online UK and international data searches, and the collation and secondary analysis of an array of research data held by CWASU. Findings and commentary on this analysis are presented in relation to specific forms
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Domestic Violence Europe Support Projects
Project Documentation 1998-1999 (Transnational Network of Experts from NGO Women Projects in Great Britain and Germany for Optimising the Action Against Domestic Violence)
The aim of this transnational project is to promote an exchange of preventative work and training concepts in responding to domestic violence by establishing a bi-national network of workers in Britain and Germany. The project promotes quality assurance in NGO women’s projects in the areas of service provision, preventative work
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Domestic Violence Policy Support Projects
Mapping Services Working With Families Where There is Domestic Violence
This project was conducted in association with Barnardo’s, The Children’s Society, NCH Action for Children, NSPCC, WAFE and CWASU, and set out to: identify and map family support work with women, children and men within both the statutory and voluntary sectors throughout the UK; identify innovative work throughout the country
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Children Domestic Violence Effects of/surviving violence Research Young People
Children’s Needs, Coping Strategies and Understanding of Woman Abuse
This multi-methodological study sought to discover how both children and young people understand domestic violence and how those who have lived with it cope with, and make sense, of their experiences. The primary themes of this research were children’s general understandings and perceptions of domestic violence; including whether they see
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Domestic Violence Evaluation Research Violence Against Women
Evaluation of The Movement Project: A Violence Prevention Programme for Men – An Internal Report
This is the report of a CWASU evaluation of the Movement Project, based at the Cassel Centre, South London, which was established in the mid-1990s. During the evaluation period it provided a mix of group-based and one-to-one work with men who have been violent towards their partners. Three main types
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Domestic Violence Research Violence Against Women
Survey on women’s experiences of inter-personal violence – An Internal Report for Lambeth Safer Cities
Crime Audit by Lambeth Safer Cities found that women aged 17-29 form the highest number of victims of violence and crime against the person in the Borough. This and other related findings prompted a concern to extend the local knowledge base on women’s safety with regard to the extent, type
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Children Domestic Violence Policy Support Projects
Review of the position of and provision for children in English refuges
This study investigated work with children in refuges for women and children experiencing domestic violence. The study also explores the effects on children of experiencing and witnessing such violence. A multi-methodological approach was adopted involving archive research, a literature review, a detailed telephone survey of all refuge groups and nine
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Domestic Violence Evaluation Perpetrators Support Projects
Evaluation of the Domestic Violence Intervention Project
Background There is currently no national policy on domestic violence in the UK. At the most basic level preventing violence against women in the home involves two components: increasing safety for the woman and her children in the short term, and ending the man’s violence in the longer term. DVIP
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Domestic Violence Research Violence Against Women
Developing community responses and resources for women experiencing domestic violence in the Kings Cross area
The report is based on three months research into the potential of developing community responses to the widespread problem of domestic violence in the King’s Cross area. Data were gathered via a literature review, questionnaires and interviews involving local organisations, both statutory and voluntary, and individual women based in the
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Criminal Justice System Domestic Violence Evaluation
Evaluation of Domestic Violence Matters (A Development Project)
This report documents the multi-methodological evaluation of ‘Domestic Violence Matters’ (DVM), an adaptation of a Canadian project – the Family Consultancy Service (London, Ontario) – which involves locating a team of skilled civilian crisis interveners within the police service to follow up police responses to domestic violence. This experimental pilot
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Domestic Violence Training Violence Against Women
Challenging Domestic Violence: A Training and Resource Pack
This Training and Resource Pack is aimed at anyone wanting to address domestic violence in their work or community setting. It is based on the Multi-Disciplinary Training for Trainers course conducted by the authors in 1989. The Pack is designed to provide simple ideas for organising and conducting training around
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Domestic Violence Violence Against Women
Abuse of Women in the Home: Advice and Information
This is an advice and information pack on the abuse of women and children in the home. It is designed to inform women who are experiencing abuse themselves by providing practical information on stopping, escaping from and surviving a violent situation. The pack is also accessible to professionals and all
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Criminal Justice System Domestic Violence Support Projects
Exploratory Study of Council Policy and Practice and Local Support Services in the Area of Domestic Violence within Hammersmith and Fulham
This is the report of an eight-month study of the services available to women who experience domestic violence in the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. By way of a literature review, and questionnaires and interviews completed by workers in both the statutory and voluntary sectors and women who have experienced
