Make Women and Girls central to plans to tackle Domestic Violence, in Durham’s Police and Crime Plan for 2015-17. Make more funds available for women’s refuges and women’s service providers.
Make Women and Girls central to plans to tackle Domestic Violence, in Durham’s Police and Crime Plan for 2015-17. Make more funds available for women’s refuges and women’s service providers.
The Issue
Durham’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Ron Hogg, has decided to amend priorities in the Police and Crime Plan for 2015-2017.
He says domestic abuse; “is not a gender specific crime and male victims should not be overlooked” and wants to amend the priority to; “make sure it is clear that it encompasses the entire scope of domestic abuse and all victims within that.” The suggested change is from: “To reduce the impact of domestic abuse, particularly violence against women and girls” to: “To reduce the incidence and impact of domestic abuse in all its forms”.
Official figures show that, between 2002 and 2012, 93.9% of adults who were convicted of murder in the UK, were men. Men who kill women are likely to have been perpetrators of violence against women for years – domestic violence has a higher rate of repeat victimisation than any other crime. Those few women who do kill men are likely to have been repeatedly abused by them. Two women a week die at the hands of a current or former partner. This is why the main focus of any domestic abuse strategy needs to be on violence against women. This is why the Durham Police and Crime commissioner should not degender the official approach to domestic abuse.
Refuge funding in the Durham area has been cut by 60% in the last two years. These services are essential for women and children fleeing violent situations. On just one day in 2014, 112 UK Women and 84 children were turned away from refuges because they could not be accommodated and 369 women were denied help from outreach services in the community, ( Women’s Aid survey 2013-14). Lives are lost every year because of lack of funding. We want assurance that Durham and Darlington refuges will suffer no further funding cuts, and that more funds will be available for women’s refuges and women’s service providers.
We call on Ron Hogg to make women and girls central to plans to tackle domestic abuse, in Durham’s Police and Crime Plan for 2015-17 and to make more funds available for women’s refuges and women’s service providers.
The Issue
Durham’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Ron Hogg, has decided to amend priorities in the Police and Crime Plan for 2015-2017.
He says domestic abuse; “is not a gender specific crime and male victims should not be overlooked” and wants to amend the priority to; “make sure it is clear that it encompasses the entire scope of domestic abuse and all victims within that.” The suggested change is from: “To reduce the impact of domestic abuse, particularly violence against women and girls” to: “To reduce the incidence and impact of domestic abuse in all its forms”.
Official figures show that, between 2002 and 2012, 93.9% of adults who were convicted of murder in the UK, were men. Men who kill women are likely to have been perpetrators of violence against women for years – domestic violence has a higher rate of repeat victimisation than any other crime. Those few women who do kill men are likely to have been repeatedly abused by them. Two women a week die at the hands of a current or former partner. This is why the main focus of any domestic abuse strategy needs to be on violence against women. This is why the Durham Police and Crime commissioner should not degender the official approach to domestic abuse.
Refuge funding in the Durham area has been cut by 60% in the last two years. These services are essential for women and children fleeing violent situations. On just one day in 2014, 112 UK Women and 84 children were turned away from refuges because they could not be accommodated and 369 women were denied help from outreach services in the community, ( Women’s Aid survey 2013-14). Lives are lost every year because of lack of funding. We want assurance that Durham and Darlington refuges will suffer no further funding cuts, and that more funds will be available for women’s refuges and women’s service providers.
We call on Ron Hogg to make women and girls central to plans to tackle domestic abuse, in Durham’s Police and Crime Plan for 2015-17 and to make more funds available for women’s refuges and women’s service providers.
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Petition created on 13 February 2015