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Birmingham City Council has revealed that one in five children in the city experience domestic abuse while at home. This headline figure was released in Birmingham domestic abuse prevention report.
In efforts to help reduce this, in the domestic abuse prevention report (click here to read https://bit.ly/3FWAd4u), Birmingham City Council plan to increase education for children from an early age. Alongside this, the council hope that by doing this it will help children to deal with cyber bullying if they are exposed to it.
Research published by Ania Moroz from Victim support has found that an alarming number of people who took part in the research were not aware of the services that are available to young people that are affected by domestic abuse. Ms Moroz went on to say, “It is crucial that statuary agencies and domestic abuse services for adults refer or offer these services for children and young people… otherwise many people will not access them.”
Jamie who is a domestic abuse survivor, speaking to ManKind “I have been watching Coronation Street recently and never realised that there was help out there for men in a domestic abuse situation.” He then went on to say, “I am now out of my difficult situation, but I would like to share it with others to give them hope that they can get out of it too.” To read Jamie’s Story follow this link: https://bit.ly/3pRPSfM
Tanisha Jnagel, Respect’s helpline manager said: “The award of additional funding allowed us to increase the helpline opening hours to meet the demand, recruit more advisors, and create resources offering an added stream of support via the website.”
Respect also announced in their service review for 2020-2021 that they have received 37% more calls in 2021, compared to 2020. Alongside this, they announced in the report that they received 230% more webchats for 2020-2021. Respect’s service review: https://bit.ly/3zn02Z4
While there has been an increase in reaching out for support, this has led to there being an increase in reports to Police forces across England and Wales. At the end of March 2021, there was a total of 845,734 reports of domestic abuse.
The Office for National Statistics has also revealed a decrease in the Crown Prosecution Service charging rate for domestic abuse related crimes. The charge rate has declined from 76% in 2018 to 70% in March 2021.
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