Strategic priorities

Responding to domestic abuse effectively is not just about focusing on high risk victims, but also recognising the need to take a population-based approach, understanding and addressing the underlying causes of domestic abuse and determining which factors may increase risk and how those might be mitigated.

By tackling the underlying causes of the risk of domestic abuse, such as learned behaviour from growing up in a family where domestic abuse was accepted, we can help to lessen the impacts of abuse on the individual victim. This ensures that communities and society are strengthened to support people experiencing domestic abuse to be safe, well and resilient.

Alongside prevention, it is also critical that where abuse is already being experienced, professionals can intervene early to prevent an escalation in both risk and the impact domestic abuse can have.

Key metrics for priority one

Number of students completing the pupil wellbeing survey and reporting an experience of unhealthy relationships and/or abuse within the home
umber of schools engaged with GHLL
Number of community engagement events attended by specialist services
Number of young people engaged with STREET
Number of young people and youth organisations engaged with during consultation activity

"I wish as a teen I had acess to healthy relationship awareness or services, I had no idea about..."
(Survivor consultation)

Objective 1A:

To ensure the continued understanding and assessment of the way in which domestic abuse presents within Gloucestershire and the exploration of mechanisms to respond to its root causes.

Outcomes:

A full domestic abuse needs assessment is undertaken every three years to define and monitor domestic abuse, honour based abuse, forced marriage and child to parent abuse.
A review of current services and approaches across the county is completed that supports prevention and acknowledges best practice responses nationally, considering all levels of prevention and opportunities to intervene as early as possible.
Clear, consistent local datasets are gathered from commissioned services on a regular basis to ensure local need is understood and local approaches are informed by robust data.
An improved understanding of honour based abuse and forced marriage in the county and plans to improve reporting and ensure appropriate supports are in place.
An agreed approach to child to parent abuse is in place, based on local research and any published Government guidance.
Strong links with the Gloucestershire Combatting Drugs Partnership are in place, with any local links between domestic abuse and substance misuse understood and prevention opportunities considered.
Consideration around how the DA LPB can support wider work connected to online abuse and exploitation and a plan is in place to outline the agreed contribution.

Objective 1B:

To ensure the continued provision of evidence based healthy relationships education and interventions that promote healthy relationship behaviours amongst young people.

Outcomes:

Continued support of Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning (GHLL)7 to ensure schools are provided with support in their delivery of Relationships and Sex Health Education.
Ongoing exploration of the role commissioned specialist domestic abuse services can play in supporting schools in their delivery of Relationships and Sex Health Education.
Continued monitoring of national approaches to Relationships and Sex Health Education to ensure local implementation.
Continued use of the Pupil Wellbeing Survey to assess local need amongst the student population.
Clear local approach to relationship abuse experienced by children and young people is in place, with a review of guidance and the role of STREET9 (and/or any future commissioned service) within the approach completed, with clear consideration around awareness raising and the voice of young people in shaping the local approach.
Clear approach is in place between children’s services and specialist domestic abuse providers to ensure a joined up approach to healthy relationships work is in place for children in care and care leavers, noting their unique experiences and how these may impact their understanding of healthy relationships.

Objective 1C:

To ensure those experiencing domestic abuse, stalking, honour based abuse, forced marriage and child to parent abuse can access support at an early stage, preventing the risk of escalation (secondary prevention) and reducing exposure to the harmful consequences of domestic abuse.

Outcomes:

Specialist commissioned services have clear and robust plans to increase community engagement (including support to those from protected characteristic groups) to increase early intervention opportunities.
All members of the DA LPB promote routine enquiry and increase multi-agency referrals into specialist victim services.
All members of the DA LPB have a considered approach to DA champions within their services to support in awareness raising and advice in the workplace.
Projects looking at the county response to victims/survivors facing multiple disadvantage ensure prevention and early intervention are built into plans

Responding to domestic abuse effectively is not just about focusing on high risk victims, but also recognising the need to take a population-based approach, understanding and addressing the underlying causes of domestic abuse and determining which factors may increase risk and how those might be mitigated.

By tackling the underlying causes of the risk of domestic abuse, such as learned behaviour from growing up in a family where domestic abuse was accepted, we can help to lessen the impacts of abuse on the individual victim. This ensures that communities and society are strengthened to support people experiencing domestic abuse to be safe, well and resilient.

Alongside prevention, it is also critical that where abuse is already being experienced, professionals can intervene early to prevent an escalation in both risk and the impact domestic abuse can have.

Key metrics for priority one

Number of students completing the pupil wellbeing survey and reporting an experience of unhealthy relationships and/or abuse within the home
umber of schools engaged with GHLL
Number of community engagement events attended by specialist services
Number of young people engaged with STREET
Number of young people and youth organisations engaged with during consultation activity

"I wish as a teen I had acess to healthy relationship awareness or services, I had no idea about..."
(Survivor consultation)

Objective 1A:

To ensure the continued understanding and assessment of the way in which domestic abuse presents within Gloucestershire and the exploration of mechanisms to respond to its root causes.

Outcomes:

A full domestic abuse needs assessment is undertaken every three years to define and monitor domestic abuse, honour based abuse, forced marriage and child to parent abuse.
A review of current services and approaches across the county is completed that supports prevention and acknowledges best practice responses nationally, considering all levels of prevention and opportunities to intervene as early as possible.
Clear, consistent local datasets are gathered from commissioned services on a regular basis to ensure local need is understood and local approaches are informed by robust data.
An improved understanding of honour based abuse and forced marriage in the county and plans to improve reporting and ensure appropriate supports are in place.
An agreed approach to child to parent abuse is in place, based on local research and any published Government guidance.
Strong links with the Gloucestershire Combatting Drugs Partnership are in place, with any local links between domestic abuse and substance misuse understood and prevention opportunities considered.
Consideration around how the DA LPB can support wider work connected to online abuse and exploitation and a plan is in place to outline the agreed contribution.

Objective 1B:

To ensure the continued provision of evidence based healthy relationships education and interventions that promote healthy relationship behaviours amongst young people.

Outcomes:

Continued support of Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning (GHLL)7 to ensure schools are provided with support in their delivery of Relationships and Sex Health Education.
Ongoing exploration of the role commissioned specialist domestic abuse services can play in supporting schools in their delivery of Relationships and Sex Health Education.
Continued monitoring of national approaches to Relationships and Sex Health Education to ensure local implementation.
Continued use of the Pupil Wellbeing Survey to assess local need amongst the student population.
Clear local approach to relationship abuse experienced by children and young people is in place, with a review of guidance and the role of STREET9 (and/or any future commissioned service) within the approach completed, with clear consideration around awareness raising and the voice of young people in shaping the local approach.
Clear approach is in place between children’s services and specialist domestic abuse providers to ensure a joined up approach to healthy relationships work is in place for children in care and care leavers, noting their unique experiences and how these may impact their understanding of healthy relationships.

Objective 1C:

To ensure those experiencing domestic abuse, stalking, honour based abuse, forced marriage and child to parent abuse can access support at an early stage, preventing the risk of escalation (secondary prevention) and reducing exposure to the harmful consequences of domestic abuse.

Outcomes:

Specialist commissioned services have clear and robust plans to increase community engagement (including support to those from protected characteristic groups) to increase early intervention opportunities.
All members of the DA LPB promote routine enquiry and increase multi-agency referrals into specialist victim services.
All members of the DA LPB have a considered approach to DA champions within their services to support in awareness raising and advice in the workplace.
Projects looking at the county response to victims/survivors facing multiple disadvantage ensure prevention and early intervention are built into plans

To fully address domestic abuse, a clear and robust multi-agency response is required. There is a need to ensure agencies and professionals effectively share information, risk assess and collaborate in their response to victims/survivors, perpetrators and their families, with clear pathways into specialist support.

The Coordinated Community Response, an approach that Gloucestershire has adopted, provides a framework and is considered best practice in responding to domestic abuse.

Key metrics for priority two

Number of referrals into specialist services based on referring agency
Number of awareness sessions arranged by specialist services
Number of referrals into multi-agency processes such as MARAC
Number of professionals engaged as part of services promotion activity

"Liaising with other agencies working with [an individual] and arranging multi-disciplinary team meetings if required."
(Professional Consultation)

Objective 2A:

To further embed clear pathways to support to ensure a consistent approach to victims/survivors of domestic abuse and their families.

Outcomes:

Options for joint working protocols and co-location of domestic abuse specialists in key agencies who respond regularly to domestic abuse are considered and embedded.
Members of the DA LPB have audit processes within their services to review their referral pathways and ensure clear awareness of process and procedure amongst staff.
Options to increase capacity across the partnership for multi-agency processes such as Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC)/Stalking Clinic/Multi-Agency Tasking and Coordination (MATAC) meetings have been considered and a clear plan to address issues is in place.
An awareness plan is in place to promote awareness raising of the local stalking service.
Awareness plans are in place following the recommissioning of specialist domestic abuse services in 2025 and 2026.
Commissioned specialist services run regular service awareness sessions to improve local knowledge of service provision amongst professionals and awareness of referral routes.
Robust links are in place between the DA LPB and Suicide Prevention Partnership, with mechanisms in place that ensure a joined up approach to recognising suicide risk in domestic abuse and plans to support awareness raising and support.

Objective 2B:

To ensure a local approach to the domestic abuse joint justice plan to improve multi-agency working between police and Crown Prosecution Service.

Outcomes:

Completed local self-assessment for the domestic abuse joint justice plan.
A local action plan is in place that fulfils requirements of the domestic abuse joint justice plan.

To fully address domestic abuse, a clear and robust multi-agency response is required. There is a need to ensure agencies and professionals effectively share information, risk assess and collaborate in their response to victims/survivors, perpetrators and their families, with clear pathways into specialist support.

The Coordinated Community Response, an approach that Gloucestershire has adopted, provides a framework and is considered best practice in responding to domestic abuse.

Key metrics for priority two

Number of referrals into specialist services based on referring agency
Number of awareness sessions arranged by specialist services
Number of referrals into multi-agency processes such as MARAC
Number of professionals engaged as part of services promotion activity

"Liaising with other agencies working with [an individual] and arranging multi-disciplinary team meetings if required."
(Professional Consultation)

Objective 2A:

To further embed clear pathways to support to ensure a consistent approach to victims/survivors of domestic abuse and their families.

Outcomes:

Options for joint working protocols and co-location of domestic abuse specialists in key agencies who respond regularly to domestic abuse are considered and embedded.
Members of the DA LPB have audit processes within their services to review their referral pathways and ensure clear awareness of process and procedure amongst staff.
Options to increase capacity across the partnership for multi-agency processes such as Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC)/Stalking Clinic/Multi-Agency Tasking and Coordination (MATAC) meetings have been considered and a clear plan to address issues is in place.
An awareness plan is in place to promote awareness raising of the local stalking service.
Awareness plans are in place following the recommissioning of specialist domestic abuse services in 2025 and 2026.
Commissioned specialist services run regular service awareness sessions to improve local knowledge of service provision amongst professionals and awareness of referral routes.
Robust links are in place between the DA LPB and Suicide Prevention Partnership, with mechanisms in place that ensure a joined up approach to recognising suicide risk in domestic abuse and plans to support awareness raising and support.

Objective 2B:

To ensure a local approach to the domestic abuse joint justice plan to improve multi-agency working between police and Crown Prosecution Service.

Outcomes:

Completed local self-assessment for the domestic abuse joint justice plan.
A local action plan is in place that fulfils requirements of the domestic abuse joint justice plan.

To provide a robust, countywide response to domestic abuse, we need to ensure professionals across all organisations are skilled in identifying and responding effectively to those vulnerable to domestic abuse, both within the community and the workplace.

Key metrics for priority three

Number of training sessions provided
Number of professionals trained
Positive feedback rates from training delivered
Number of agencies who develop a workplace policy and pledge to support their staff
Number of businesses engaged
Number of engagements with the new DA LPB website

"Professionals need to be able to recognise the signs. My ex would openly abuse me in front of professionals and nobody tried to assist or intervene."
(Survivor consultation)

Objective 3A:

To ensure professionals across all agencies have access to a range of training appropriate to their role, including specialist training where possible, that enables them to feel confident and competent in their response to domestic abuse, stalking, honour based abuse, forced marriage and child to parent abuse.

Outcomes:

Investment in the revised county training pathway is secured to ensure opportunities for multi-agency training are realised and ensure an increase in skills connected to risk assessment and safeguarding.
Roll out of training pathway and processes for regular evaluation are in place with ongoing development of training that is responsive to local need.
Learning from Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews is regularly cascaded across the partnership.
DA Matters13 training and the champions’ network across Gloucestershire Constabulary is fully embedded into police training practices.
Professionals are able to recognise domestic abuse and how it may present across a range of protected and intersectional characteristics, for example, people with physical and learning disabilities, people who are LGBTQ+ and people from minoritised backgrounds.
Member agencies of the DA LPB have assessed the level of training required for their staff and embedded appropriate roll out of training based on need.

Objective 3B:

To ensure workplaces and businesses across the county take a proactive approach to addressing domestic abuse and stalking that impacts their employees, ensuring clear policies and procedures are in place.

Outcomes:

An engagement plan with local employers is in place that encourages the development of policies and procedures that support the response to staff who may be victims of abuse, and to ensure an awareness of the pathways to support in the county.
Members of the DA LPB demonstrate a clear commitment as to how they will support staff from within their own organisations, with consideration given to the adoption of a formal pledge that outlines the organisational response to internal victims of abuse.

To provide a robust, countywide response to domestic abuse, we need to ensure professionals across all organisations are skilled in identifying and responding effectively to those vulnerable to domestic abuse, both within the community and the workplace.

Key metrics for priority three

Number of training sessions provided
Number of professionals trained
Positive feedback rates from training delivered
Number of agencies who develop a workplace policy and pledge to support their staff
Number of businesses engaged
Number of engagements with the new DA LPB website

"Professionals need to be able to recognise the signs. My ex would openly abuse me in front of professionals and nobody tried to assist or intervene."
(Survivor consultation)

Objective 3A:

To ensure professionals across all agencies have access to a range of training appropriate to their role, including specialist training where possible, that enables them to feel confident and competent in their response to domestic abuse, stalking, honour based abuse, forced marriage and child to parent abuse.

Outcomes:

Investment in the revised county training pathway is secured to ensure opportunities for multi-agency training are realised and ensure an increase in skills connected to risk assessment and safeguarding.
Roll out of training pathway and processes for regular evaluation are in place with ongoing development of training that is responsive to local need.
Learning from Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews is regularly cascaded across the partnership.
DA Matters13 training and the champions’ network across Gloucestershire Constabulary is fully embedded into police training practices.
Professionals are able to recognise domestic abuse and how it may present across a range of protected and intersectional characteristics, for example, people with physical and learning disabilities, people who are LGBTQ+ and people from minoritised backgrounds.
Member agencies of the DA LPB have assessed the level of training required for their staff and embedded appropriate roll out of training based on need.

Objective 3B:

To ensure workplaces and businesses across the county take a proactive approach to addressing domestic abuse and stalking that impacts their employees, ensuring clear policies and procedures are in place.

Outcomes:

An engagement plan with local employers is in place that encourages the development of policies and procedures that support the response to staff who may be victims of abuse, and to ensure an awareness of the pathways to support in the county.
Members of the DA LPB demonstrate a clear commitment as to how they will support staff from within their own organisations, with consideration given to the adoption of a formal pledge that outlines the organisational response to internal victims of abuse.

The provision of high quality domestic abuse services and support is central to any local response to victims/survivors and their families. Service provision needs to be accessible to all victims and be available at the right time to secure their immediate safety and support their longer term recovery from abuse. Services should be informed by the service user voice to ensure everyone who requires support feels empowered to access it. Services must be flexible to changing demand and need, ensuring appropriate solutions that acknowledge the wide ranging impact domestic abuse can have.

This objective not only provides a focus on commissioned specialist services but aims to ensure that all statutory and voluntary sector organisations who are members of the DA LPB provide a high quality service in response to domestic abuse, stalking, honour based abuse, forced marriage and child to parent abuse.

Any services commissioned to deliver support within safe accommodation as part of the county council’s statutory duties under part 4 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 are required to meet one of the quality standards set out in the statutory guidance Delivery of support to victims of domestic abuse in domestic abuse safe accommodation services.14 The county council annually reviews the compliance of these providers to ensure they meet the required standards.

Key metrics for priority four

Investment made in specialist services
Number of people supported through safe accommodation and community services
Positive outcome rates from specialist services
Number of children identified as victims of domestic abuse via Operation Encompass
Number of agency delivery plans developed to improve their service offer
Number of agencies who have developed/refreshed their organisations policy for responding effectively to domestic abuse
Positive feedback rates on police Rapid Video Response model

"There's a huge gap in services for children who experienced domestic abuse.
(Professional consultation)

Objective 4A:

To ensure the ongoing collaboration between local authorities to effectively fulfil the statutory duty of providing support within domestic abuse safe accommodation and to work effectively across the Gloucestershire multi-agency housing response to improve outcomes for domestic abuse victims/survivors and their children.

Outcomes:

Partnership investment is made available to increase the provision of high quality domestic abuse safe accommodation across all tenures, that is accessible to all, including protected characteristic groups and consideration of ‘by and for’ approaches.
Consideration to support the local implementation of national best practices approaches to domestic abuse safe accommodation, for example, Whole Housing Approach, Domestic Abuse Housing Association accreditation.
Options for support in domestic abuse safe accommodation for those with no recourse to public funds are considered, researched and commissioning possibilities explored.
Domestic abuse funding from Government is used to ensure specialist domestic abuse support is available for victims/survivors and their children accessing domestic abuse safe accommodation.
Further opportunities are considered to support the collaboration between local authority housing teams and housing providers within the county.
Further development of the Domestic Abuse Housing Champions Network to facilitate peer support, and shared learning.
Further links with Registered Housing Providers are developed enabling specialist support and safeguarding to victims of domestic abuse and their children within social housing.
Current service provision is reviewed against the Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of “man”, “woman”, and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010, to ensure that the needs of all victims and perpetrators can be met by local service provision.

Objective 4B:

To ensure the ongoing development and delivery of high quality domestic abuse specialist community based support for all victims/survivors and their families that ensures the availability of the right support at the right time (including the provision of specialist support for stalking, honour based abuse, forced marriage and child to parent abuse).

Outcomes:

A collaborative commissioning approach is in place that supports the requirements of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024.
A local plan is in place that considers the support needs of victims/survivors with no
recourse to public funds.
A shared plan is in place amongst commissioned victims’ services that considers their approach to intersectionality, ensuring engagement across all protected characteristic groups.
A review of the council’s trauma recovery pilots delivering therapeutic support to adults and children accessing safe accommodation is completed. Options for broadening the service offer to all victims/survivors accessing community based support is included in the review.
Ongoing review of local ‘by and for’ services by domestic abuse services commissioners and considerations are given to the potential for domestic abuse support that engages with the ‘by and for’ sector.
An agreed approach for responding to child to parent abuse in Gloucestershire, including strategic ownership for activity, is in place.
Current service provision is reviewed, alongside both local and national funding options, considering longer-term support provision and increasing service continuity for victims/survivors and their children who move through services.
Current service provision is reviewed against the Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of “man”, “woman”, and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010, to ensure that the needs of all victims and perpetrators can be met by local service provision.

Objective 4C:

To ensure the ongoing development and delivery of high quality domestic abuse specialist community based services that support children as victims in their own right.

Outcomes:

Mechanisms are in place that respond to the recommendations of the Children and Young People’s Needs Assessment 2023, exploring funding and commissioning opportunities.
Oversight of the local approach to Operation Encompass is in place, working collaboratively with the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership (GSCP)

Objective 4D:

To ensure a continued focus on addressing domestic abuse and co-presenting multiple disadvantage, recognising the long term approach to tackling multiple disadvantage in Gloucestershire.

Outcomes:

Research into the links between domestic abuse and suicide risk is completed and a local approach is developed to ensure appropriate responses across all agencies (considering the current approach to domestic abuse related death reviews.
Membership of the Making Every Adult Matter Network19 is fully utilised, using their two year approach to enhance support for vulnerable adults.

Objective 4E:

To ensure all members of the DA LPB continue to develop their approach to victims/survivors and their families, building on best practice and areas for local development identified through the needs assessment and victim/survivor voice input.

Outcomes:

Community Safety Partnerships have a plan in place that considers the needs of each local community and supports the implementation of the strategy from a place based perspective.
Members of the DA LPB have in place agency improvement plans that focus on ensuring high quality support and services are provided across the system.
Local approaches to address societal inequality are explored and a plan is in place that details how the DA LPB can contribute.
Increased links with the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board20 are in place that explore the concerns relating to older victims of abuse and how to respond effectively.

The provision of high quality domestic abuse services and support is central to any local response to victims/survivors and their families. Service provision needs to be accessible to all victims and be available at the right time to secure their immediate safety and support their longer term recovery from abuse. Services should be informed by the service user voice to ensure everyone who requires support feels empowered to access it. Services must be flexible to changing demand and need, ensuring appropriate solutions that acknowledge the wide ranging impact domestic abuse can have.

This objective not only provides a focus on commissioned specialist services but aims to ensure that all statutory and voluntary sector organisations who are members of the DA LPB provide a high quality service in response to domestic abuse, stalking, honour based abuse, forced marriage and child to parent abuse.

Any services commissioned to deliver support within safe accommodation as part of the county council’s statutory duties under part 4 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 are required to meet one of the quality standards set out in the statutory guidance Delivery of support to victims of domestic abuse in domestic abuse safe accommodation services.14 The county council annually reviews the compliance of these providers to ensure they meet the required standards.

Key metrics for priority four

Investment made in specialist services
Number of people supported through safe accommodation and community services
Positive outcome rates from specialist services
Number of children identified as victims of domestic abuse via Operation Encompass
Number of agency delivery plans developed to improve their service offer
Number of agencies who have developed/refreshed their organisations policy for responding effectively to domestic abuse
Positive feedback rates on police Rapid Video Response model

"There's a huge gap in services for children who experienced domestic abuse.
(Professional consultation)

Objective 4A:

To ensure the ongoing collaboration between local authorities to effectively fulfil the statutory duty of providing support within domestic abuse safe accommodation and to work effectively across the Gloucestershire multi-agency housing response to improve outcomes for domestic abuse victims/survivors and their children.

Outcomes:

Partnership investment is made available to increase the provision of high quality domestic abuse safe accommodation across all tenures, that is accessible to all, including protected characteristic groups and consideration of ‘by and for’ approaches.
Consideration to support the local implementation of national best practices approaches to domestic abuse safe accommodation, for example, Whole Housing Approach, Domestic Abuse Housing Association accreditation.
Options for support in domestic abuse safe accommodation for those with no recourse to public funds are considered, researched and commissioning possibilities explored.
Domestic abuse funding from Government is used to ensure specialist domestic abuse support is available for victims/survivors and their children accessing domestic abuse safe accommodation.
Further opportunities are considered to support the collaboration between local authority housing teams and housing providers within the county.
Further development of the Domestic Abuse Housing Champions Network to facilitate peer support, and shared learning.
Further links with Registered Housing Providers are developed enabling specialist support and safeguarding to victims of domestic abuse and their children within social housing.
Current service provision is reviewed against the Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of “man”, “woman”, and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010, to ensure that the needs of all victims and perpetrators can be met by local service provision.

Objective 4B:

To ensure the ongoing development and delivery of high quality domestic abuse specialist community based support for all victims/survivors and their families that ensures the availability of the right support at the right time (including the provision of specialist support for stalking, honour based abuse, forced marriage and child to parent abuse).

Outcomes:

A collaborative commissioning approach is in place that supports the requirements of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024.
A local plan is in place that considers the support needs of victims/survivors with no
recourse to public funds.
A shared plan is in place amongst commissioned victims’ services that considers their approach to intersectionality, ensuring engagement across all protected characteristic groups.
A review of the council’s trauma recovery pilots delivering therapeutic support to adults and children accessing safe accommodation is completed. Options for broadening the service offer to all victims/survivors accessing community based support is included in the review.
Ongoing review of local ‘by and for’ services by domestic abuse services commissioners and considerations are given to the potential for domestic abuse support that engages with the ‘by and for’ sector.
An agreed approach for responding to child to parent abuse in Gloucestershire, including strategic ownership for activity, is in place.
Current service provision is reviewed, alongside both local and national funding options, considering longer-term support provision and increasing service continuity for victims/survivors and their children who move through services.
Current service provision is reviewed against the Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of “man”, “woman”, and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010, to ensure that the needs of all victims and perpetrators can be met by local service provision.

Objective 4C:

To ensure the ongoing development and delivery of high quality domestic abuse specialist community based services that support children as victims in their own right.

Outcomes:

Mechanisms are in place that respond to the recommendations of the Children and Young People’s Needs Assessment 2023, exploring funding and commissioning opportunities.
Oversight of the local approach to Operation Encompass is in place, working collaboratively with the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership (GSCP)

Objective 4D:

To ensure a continued focus on addressing domestic abuse and co-presenting multiple disadvantage, recognising the long term approach to tackling multiple disadvantage in Gloucestershire.

Outcomes:

Research into the links between domestic abuse and suicide risk is completed and a local approach is developed to ensure appropriate responses across all agencies (considering the current approach to domestic abuse related death reviews.
Membership of the Making Every Adult Matter Network19 is fully utilised, using their two year approach to enhance support for vulnerable adults.

Objective 4E:

To ensure all members of the DA LPB continue to develop their approach to victims/survivors and their families, building on best practice and areas for local development identified through the needs assessment and victim/survivor voice input.

Outcomes:

Community Safety Partnerships have a plan in place that considers the needs of each local community and supports the implementation of the strategy from a place based perspective.
Members of the DA LPB have in place agency improvement plans that focus on ensuring high quality support and services are provided across the system.
Local approaches to address societal inequality are explored and a plan is in place that details how the DA LPB can contribute.
Increased links with the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board20 are in place that explore the concerns relating to older victims of abuse and how to respond effectively.

To break the cycle of domestic abuse and create lasting change for victims, we need to address perpetrator behaviour, holding individuals to account and providing support that facilitates the development of healthy relationship behaviours; recognising the impact of perpetrator behaviours on families as a whole.

Key metrics for priority five

Number of referrals into Positive Relationships Gloucestershire (PRG)
Number of positive completions of the PRG programme
Investment made into perpetrator interventions
Number of arrests/charges/preventative orders applied for
Number of young people supported through STREET in relation to harmful behaviours

"Other than directing to support to combat drug/alcohol abuse and similar, there has been little consideration of perpetrators - other than seeking prosecution."
(Professionals consultation)

Objective 5A:

To ensure the ongoing development and delivery of local domestic abuse specialist support for perpetrators of domestic abuse and other harmful relationship behaviours, that addresses this and creates lasting positive change, and works towards ending domestic abuse.

Outcomes:

Continued partnership investment is made available to provide specialist community based perpetrator services (currently Positive Relationships Gloucestershire (PRG)21), reflecting demand and ensuring accessibility across communities.
Opportunities to access local and national funding are sought to increase perpetrator interventions and explore options to pilot new interventions such as those for
stalking, child to parent abuse and high risk behaviour change.
Regular evaluation processes are in place that ensure positive outcomes from perpetrator interventions and that practice is continually developed in line with lessons learnt and national best practice.

Objective 5B:

To ensure a multi-agency, joined up approach to addressing perpetrator behaviour that enables all agencies to identify and respond appropriately to perpetrator behaviour, including a robust criminal justice response.

Outcomes:

Multi-agency plans are in place that ensure professionals are skilled in identifying perpetrator behaviour, conducting routine enquiry and making onwards referrals into local and/or national interventions.
Ongoing development and roll out of the MATAC process is in place to tackle the
highest risk domestic abuse offenders in the county.
Continued focus on a proactive approach to policing to increase arrest rates and opportunities for criminal justice interventions.
Funding opportunities have been explored to provide out of court disposal specialist interventions for domestic abuse offenders where appropriate and informed by the risk posed.
Long term action plans are in place around multi-agency approaches to addressing perpetrators with multiple disadvantage.

To break the cycle of domestic abuse and create lasting change for victims, we need to address perpetrator behaviour, holding individuals to account and providing support that facilitates the development of healthy relationship behaviours; recognising the impact of perpetrator behaviours on families as a whole.

Key metrics for priority five

Number of referrals into Positive Relationships Gloucestershire (PRG)
Number of positive completions of the PRG programme
Investment made into perpetrator interventions
Number of arrests/charges/preventative orders applied for
Number of young people supported through STREET in relation to harmful behaviours

"Other than directing to support to combat drug/alcohol abuse and similar, there has been little consideration of perpetrators - other than seeking prosecution."
(Professionals consultation)

Objective 5A:

To ensure the ongoing development and delivery of local domestic abuse specialist support for perpetrators of domestic abuse and other harmful relationship behaviours, that addresses this and creates lasting positive change, and works towards ending domestic abuse.

Outcomes:

Continued partnership investment is made available to provide specialist community based perpetrator services (currently Positive Relationships Gloucestershire (PRG)21), reflecting demand and ensuring accessibility across communities.
Opportunities to access local and national funding are sought to increase perpetrator interventions and explore options to pilot new interventions such as those for
stalking, child to parent abuse and high risk behaviour change.
Regular evaluation processes are in place that ensure positive outcomes from perpetrator interventions and that practice is continually developed in line with lessons learnt and national best practice.

Objective 5B:

To ensure a multi-agency, joined up approach to addressing perpetrator behaviour that enables all agencies to identify and respond appropriately to perpetrator behaviour, including a robust criminal justice response.

Outcomes:

Multi-agency plans are in place that ensure professionals are skilled in identifying perpetrator behaviour, conducting routine enquiry and making onwards referrals into local and/or national interventions.
Ongoing development and roll out of the MATAC process is in place to tackle the
highest risk domestic abuse offenders in the county.
Continued focus on a proactive approach to policing to increase arrest rates and opportunities for criminal justice interventions.
Funding opportunities have been explored to provide out of court disposal specialist interventions for domestic abuse offenders where appropriate and informed by the risk posed.
Long term action plans are in place around multi-agency approaches to addressing perpetrators with multiple disadvantage.

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Objectives and outcomes

Cross-cutting objectives

Key metrics for cross-cutting objectives

Objective A:

Outcomes

Objective B:

Outcomes

Objective C:

Outcomes

Key metrics for priority one

Objective 1A:

Outcomes:

Objective 1B:

Outcomes:

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