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 […]
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 […]
Friday, October 23, 2020
Drive welcomes the publication of the Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC)’s evaluation report, which looks into our work in Croydon and finds that the Drive Project is replicable. The report shows Drive is keeping victims safer in line with the positive findings of the University of Bristol evaluation of our pilot project. This reflects the hard work of […]
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Today, the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens and South Gloucestershire Council announced that they will be rolling out the Drive Project in South Gloucestershire. 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 […]
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Today, Police and Crime Commissioners, domestic abuse charities, housing organisations, academics, and local government representatives have written to the new Minister for Rough Sleeping and Housing, Kelly Tolhurst, asking her to work with them to establish risk-managed housing solutions for perpetrators of domestic abuse that enable victims to stay safe in their own homes, while […]
