This year, we have made tremendous strides to make families safer, sooner. From launching the world’s first Domestic Abuse Court Advocacy standards in Scotland to expanding our work with children through the CADA programme, we’ve continued to push boundaries and deliver impactful change.
Our role as a critical friend has continued to evolve as we walk alongside local areas across the UK – helping them to take a systems-wide look at what’s going on for survivors right now, inlcuding assessing risks and gaps, strengths and opportunities, and adopting a whole family approach to domestic abuse.
We have continued to create space for survivors to lead change. Our survivor-led initiatives, like the Echo programme in Bolton, Sheffield, and Leicestershire, and Family Voices, put those with lived experience at the centre of systems change work.
We’ve trained over 11,000 professionals this year, strengthening the national response to domestic abuse, and celebrated the continuation of transformative programmes like the NatWest Circle Fund, which provides critical financial support to survivors.
As we look to the future, we are developing a new strategy which builds on the achievements of the last 20 years, focusing on prevention, early intervention, reducing risk and rebuilding lives affected by domestic abuse.
A huge thank you to every person and organisation who has made progress possible and shares our vision of a world without domestic abuse.
