Our Commitment to tackling Domestic Abuse

Our commitment to tackling domestic abuse

As a local authority we are committed to tackling domestic abuse by:

• Working together with our local communities on campaigns to raise awareness and eliminate tolerance of domestic abuse in St Helens  
• Co-ordination of our activity to support victims and challenge and deter perpetrators
• Ensuring that services work together to protect children from the ongoing harm and trauma of domestic abuse
• Providing Community leadership in addressing and confronting the cultural aspects of domestic abuse
• Moving our services from reactive to proactive to work to support prevention rather than managing crises
• Listening to survivors' stories and ensuring that they influence our future approach
• Training our teams and promoting the professional responsibility to report domestic abuse
• Developing support for a whole family approach to domestic abuse - taking an 'asset-based approach' to the community
• Using every opportunity or contact with residents to make every contact count
• Improve our recording and data collection so that we understand the true scale and prevalence of this issue - which we can then use to improve services.