Wednesday, March 17, 2021
As we absorb the traumatic and horrifying circumstances of Sarah Everard’s death and reflect on the stolen lives of the thirty other women murdered by men this year, including at least three women since Sarah’s death – Geetika Goyal, Imogen Bohajczuk, and Wenjing Xu – our hearts go out to all victims and families whose lives have been changed forever […]
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Drive is aware of a Home Office’s announcement that there will be an additional £10million for domestic abuse perpetrator interventions as part of a package to respond to serious violent crime. We have called for investment in work with domestic abuse perpetrators and this sounds like an important step forward. We look forward to hearing […]
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Today, the Drive Partnership welcomes the inclusion of a £15million package to respond to perpetrators of domestic abuse in the Chancellor’s Spring Budget. This means that more victims and survivors will be made safer, sooner as perpetrators across England and Wales receive interventions that can prevent abuse from continuing or reoccurring. The announcement comes […]
Friday, February 12, 2021
The Government stated its intention Wednesday to include a strategic approach to domestic abuse perpetrators as part of a wider domestic abuse strategy due later this year. The commitment came as Lords debated an amendment which would have put a legal requirement for a perpetrator strategy into the Bill. This represents a significant victory for […]
Monday, January 18, 2021
A new report published today by The Drive Partnership (Respect, SafeLives, and Social Finance) warns that abusers are reporting that relationship problems have lessened during lockdown – but that this view is unlikely to be shared by victims. The report, based on the findings of a survey conducted between August and October 2020, suggests that […]
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Twelve members of the House of Lords came together last Tuesday to call for a Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Strategy as part of the Domestic Abuse Bill which is going through parliament. This represents an important step forward in the campaign backed by 80+ organisations and experts, for a perpetrator strategy, that can reduce the endemic […]
Monday, January 4, 2021
The Drive Partnership has published its briefing for the House of Lords debate on the Domestic Abuse Bill, in which it argues for the Bill to include a commitment to publish a perpetrators strategy to better prevent domestic abuse. It also argues for changes to the new proposed statutory duty on councils to provide accommodation-based […]
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Today, the Derbyshire PCC, Police, and City and County Council, NHS Derby and Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group have announced that they will be responding to domestic abuse by introducing the Drive Project in their area. This welcome news means that Drive is continuing to expand across England and Wales ensuring more areas have bespoke systems […]
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Over two thousand more victims will be supported to stay safe through the Drive Project, as government and PCCs invest in holding perpetrators of domestic abuse to account. Drive, an intervention that works to protect victims of domestic abuse by challenging and changing the behaviour of high-harm, high-risk and serial perpetrators, is set to make […]
Thursday, November 12, 2020
This week, Wirral Council announced that they will be tackling domestic abuse through the Drive Project. This welcome news means that Drive is continuing to expand across England and Wales ensuring more areas have bespoke systems in place to manage the risk that high-harm, high-risk perpetrators of domestic abuse pose and to keep child and adult […]
