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Draw upon good practice

Case studies and a growing source of community feedback is all good practice on what makes services work better.

We want more education, prevention and perpetrator behaviour change programmes and you can help make it happen.

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We want change, and you can help make it happen

Tap into feedback from local communities on what would make public policies and services better for Derby. We don’t want to keep giving feedback that goes nowhere, holding vigils and hearing ‘lessons will be learned’.

Based on community consultation events, we want to see more initiatives like these examples, right here in Derby & Derbyshire.

Root Causes

Improved early intervention trauma therapy services in childhood, adolescence and adulthood, including preventative healthy coping strategies and addiction recovery, would reduce risk factors for abusive behaviour in relationships. Reducing stressors such as financial struggles, unresolved trauma, inequalities, social expectations and pressures of toxic masculinity is vital work in reducing misogyny.

Click here for a report on the role of the NHS in addressing domestic abuse

Perpetrator programmes

Perpetrator programmes need more funding and to be widened for more well promoted self-referral and community referral routes, recognising barriers to trust and engagement with statutory agencies, and extended beyond high-risk offenders with more early intervention services.

Good practice examples include:

Early Intervention: Make A Change programme from Respect which works directly with people using abusive and controlling behaviours, while also empowering the people around them – local communities, friends, families and professionals – to see themselves as part of the solution, and to work together to address the problem.

Hampshire Police – Project Foundation suite of interventions with repeat perpetrators.

Multi-agency Stalking Intervention Programme (MASIP) from Suzy Lamplugh Trust and partners.

Strong evaluation of the Drive project working with people causing harm to reduce their abusive behaviours.

Training

A vital part of changing institutionalized misogyny and workplace culture. We want to see local agencies such as the Council, Police and CPS (Crown Prosecution Service), NHS Trusts, local schools and institutions signing up for education workshops such as Schools Against Sexism with UK Feminista, Rethinking Masculinities & Allyship workshops with Beyond Equality, Online Abuse with Glitch, Domestic abuse training for employers with Safe Lives and Tackling Misogyny and INCEL subculture.

Learn from other public sectors

You could draw inspiration from the websites and examples below.