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New Partnership Manager at Standing Together
Standing Together are very excited to welcome Sally Jackson as our new Partnership Manager. Sally previously worked for Portsmouth City Council as Hidden Violence Team Manager and has vast experience of bringing together services and activities to combat domestic violence and other related issues. She will be focusing on building on the great foundations of partnership within Hammersmith and Fulham, and continuing to deliver change in this crucial area.
National Guidance Launched For Developing An Effective Partnership Approach To Domestic Violence
In Search of Excellence: A Guide
With the support of the Home Office, Standing Together has designed national guidance for developing an effective multi-agency, response to domestic violence. This is centred on local partnerships which coordinate the response to this dreadful crime. Entitled ‘In Search of Excellence’ the guidance is launched this month and is free of charge to download from the website at www.standingtogether.org.uk. To go hand-in-hand with this piece of work, Standing Together is offering partnerships the opportunity to receive free consultancy to outline the best practice model and to receive advice on local delivery.
Domestic Violence partnerships bring together the main statutory and voluntary agencies that work to change the practice and culture around domestic abuse. These normally include the Police, Health Services, Children and Adult Services, Probation and Housing Services. Specialised services based in the voluntary sector are also a crucial part of such partnerships. The guidance is intended to help partnerships assess their development, establish their current performance and discover solutions that will allow them to improve within their own context.
This definitive national guide is aimed at domestic violence coordinators, partnership members, partnership chairs, domestic violence leads within agencies and heads of services. It identifies 12 components of a successful coordinated community response - the unified effort needed to achieve the aim of increasing safety for survivors and their children. These components were tested within 10 partnerships across the country and the evidence of their activities added much to the final version of the guide. Without addressing these components partnerships will be significantly less likely to achieve success.
The guide concludes ‘The search for excellence is aspirational but improvement is essential and achievable’. ‘To allow women and children, and other victims, to lead safe and fulfilled lives it is essential that the problem is recognised and acted upon in a way which removes risk, satisfies needs and protects the most vulnerable’.
Contributors to the guide are Anthony Wills, Chief Executive of Standing Together and domestic violence consultants Bear Montique, Nicole Jacobs and Laura Croom. The guide and consultation is only possible because Standing Together is in receipt of Government Transitional funding that partly supports this work.
Domestic violence is a social and global problem that has a significant impact on individuals, families, communities and society as a whole. It is horribly prevalent throughout society. Research indicates that it affects one in four women and one in six men in their lifetime, regardless of age, social class, race, disability or lifestyle. At least 750,000 children a year witness domestic violence. Domestic violence kills. At least two woman are murdered in the UK by their current or former partner every week.
Standing Together is recognised nationally as the leading expert on domestic violence partnerships and the broad coordinated community response, and act as advisors to Government, both nationally and locally. Standing Together’s vision is to achieve practical and cultural change about domestic violence.
For further information on the guidance or consultancy please email or telephone Standing Together on 0208 748 5717.
Support domestic violence victims by buying the Survivor's Cookbook
Support domestic violence victims in your local community by purchasing the Survivor's Cookbook. Combining a wide range of easy-to-prepare recipes, from both survivors and those who support them and make their lives safe.
Many of the ideas are really simple and include recipes from Gordon Ramsay and Jo Brand who are friends of Women's Aid and Standing Together Against Domestic Violence.
A suggested donation of £5 is proposed for the Cookbook (with £1 for postage and packing). All proceeds go to Women's Aid and Standing Together Against Domestic Violence.
To order, email your name, delivery address, phone number and the number of copies you wish to order. Donations for the cookbook can be made by cheque, debit or credit card. If paying by debit/credit card, we will email you an online invoice from PayPal (you will not need an account for this service.) Once you have paid, we will send you the cookbook.
Thank you for your support.
Big Lottery Grant for vulnerable survivors of domestic abuse
Standing Together successfully raised nearly a quarter of a million pounds to benefit pregnant woman and their unborn babies in West London. A Big Lottery grant will enable Standing Together to work with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, for a five year period to support and offer early intervention for pregnant woman that may be in danger or at risk of domestic violence.
Read the press release for more information about this how this work will benefit the community.
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Last Modified: 1st July 2011