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A Call for Further Action: Strengthen The Response to Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse 

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In April 2020, the Drive Partnership published a Call to Action, supported by over 125 organisations and individuals, for the Government to formulate a perpetrator strategy to effectively tackle endemic levels of domestic abuse. Through the passage of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, the Government accepted our Call to Action’s key ask and set itself a legal requirement to publish a strategic approach to perpetrators within a year; which it fulfilled within the publication of the Pursuing Perpetrators Pillar of the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan 2022.

Two years on, there remains key systemic gaps, challenges and inconsistencies that enable perpetrators to slip through the net of the current national response, continue the cycle of domestic abuse, and cause repeat and serial harm to adult and child victim-survivors. A full range of effective perpetrator responses available across all areas and designed for all communities is essential to reducing risk, increasing the safety of adult and child victim-survivors, and breaking the cycle of domestic abuse for good by tackling the root cause.

Ahead of its win at the July 2024 General Election, the Labour Party made clear pledges to halve Violence Against Women and Girls within a decade and utilise “every government tool available to target perpetrators and address the root causes of abuse and violence”. To achieve this, the new Government must strengthen the response to perpetrators of domestic abuse.

We call on the Government to take further action and strengthen the response to perpetrators of domestic abuse through: 

  • Long-term, strategic investment in perpetrator responses and ongoing evaluation.
  • A full range of specialist service provision available across all areas – to match the scale of the problem and meet the needs of all communities.
  • Consistent and evidence-informed multi-agency responses to high-risk, high-harm perpetrators.
  • A cross-government, whole-system response to perpetrators that centres adult and child victim-survivors.

Read the Call for Further Action here.

Read our accessible version of the Call for Further Action here.

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