Friday, July 23, 2021
The Drive Partnership is really pleased to see a determination threaded through the new Government Violence Against Women And Girls Strategy to address the problem at source. We hope this determination will be matched with funding to make change happen through the comprehensive spending review. We particularly welcome the proposed communication campaign to tackle misogyny […]
Thursday, July 15, 2021
The Drive Partnership has launched a survey of victims and survivors of domestic abuse, to ensure that their voices are at the heart of its input into the upcoming government domestic abuse perpetrator strategy. This is part of Drive’s work at a national level to ensure that perpetrators can no longer get away with abusive […]
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
The Drive Partnership, which works with high harm, high risk* and serial perpetrators of domestic abuse to increase safety for victims, has launched a new film to urge government and police and crime commissioners to respond directly to the people actually causing harm – rather than requiring victim-survivors to be solely responsible for keeping themselves […]
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
The Drive Partnership – which is made up of Social Finance, Respect and SafeLives – welcomes the news that the Home Office has now opened the application process for PCCs in England and Wales to apply for grant funding to support the introduction of perpetrator-focused domestic abuse programmes in their area. The Drive Project works […]
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
The Drive Partnership – which is made up of Social Finance, Respect and SafeLives – welcomes the news that the Home Office has now opened the application process for PCCs in England and Wales to apply for grant funding to support the introduction of perpetrator-focused domestic abuse programmes in their area. Quality perpetrator work must […]
Thursday, May 13, 2021
The Drive Partnership welcomes the new Domestic Abuse Act 2021 which passed into law in late April and in particular, the legal requirement for government to publish a Perpetrator Strategy within a year. This is something the Drive Partnership – which is made up of Social Finance, Respect and SafeLives – has long called for, […]
Thursday, May 6, 2021
The Drive Partnership is seeking an independent evaluator to undertake evaluation of the local and national systems change objectives of our work. With funding from the National Lottery Community Fund England Committee, we want to understand the impact of the developments and expansions of our site-based work, and the impact of our national systems change […]
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
The Drive partnership has announced today that it is seeking partners for two projects. Both tender opportunities focus on addressing gaps in training for professionals and research into culturally grounded interventions for people who use harm from racialised communities. The tender opportunities: 1. Workforce & Leadership Programme Development for racialised communities: working with those causing […]
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 […]
