Violence Against Women and Girls The Tri-borough Response

1. Violence Against Women and GirlsThe Tri-borough Response Nicole Jacobs, CEO Standing Together Against Domestic Violence 27/06/2016

2. This presentation • History and background of STADV • Tri- borough strategic and operational response that meeting the breadth and ambition of the Coordinated Community Response • The front line services is LBHF- the Angelou Partnership • Other forms of VAWG

3. Who is STADV and why did we start in the late 1990’s? 1996 Figures

4. What do we mean by Coordinated Community Response? • The Coordinated Community Response to violence against women and girls is a local, whole system approach to the issue. Core Principles underpinning the CCR approach • Violence against women and girls is caused by, and generates, gender inequality. • Individual experiences are influenced by many factors. (These include gender, age, sexual orientation, ability, race, religion, marital status, immigration, socio-economic position) • The CCR enables a whole system response to a whole person, recognising the wellbeing and safety needs of victims and survivors, with communities and organisations working alongside them.

5. Core Principles continued: • The CCR enables a whole system response to a whole person, recognising the wellbeing and safety needs of victims and survivors, with communities and organisations working alongside them. • Responsibility for safety should not rest solely with individual victims but also with the community and services. • Perpetrators must be held to account for the harm they inflict, and offered routes to change their abusive behaviours. • A CCR supports organisational responses, it does not replace them: organisations remain responsible and accountable (to victims, to their own agencies and to the partnership) for their own responses to domestic abuse, within a context of multi-agency working. • A CCR requires leadership, a shared understanding of domestic abuse and risk, and coordination (including: agencies understand their role in the CCR and the role of partner agencies).

6. The Coordinated Community ResponseWe bring communities together to end domestic abuse STADV’s local work mainly in the Tri-boroughs: • MARAC Coordination (five boroughs) • Children and Health Coordination • Specialist Court Coordination (Hammersmith and Westminster) • Housing Coordination • Specialist Services Coordination • Maternity and A&E Projects • Mental Health Coordination

7. The Coordinated Community ResponseWe bring communities together to end domestic abuse STADV’s National work: • Domestic Homicide Reviews, • Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA), • National Health Alliance • Consultancy & training, • In Search of Excellence: A Guide to Local Partnerships • Mapping • Survivor consultation • Basic knowledge and skills training packages

8. The VAWG Strategic and operational work in the Tri- boroughs

9. 3 components of Tri-Borough CCR: • VAWG Strategy/Action Plan (2015/18) • VAWG Partnership and Governance Structure • VAWG Commissioning: Coordination AND Specialist Services

10. Our 7 Strategic Aims In short we aspire to ‘Get it Right. First Time, Every Time.’ • Access • Response • Community • Practitioners • Children and Young People • Perpetrators • Justice and Protection

11. Key Strategic Actions Access • 1.1 – Improve awareness amongst survivors about the range of services they can access and help them navigate the systems • 1.6 – Strengthen working relationships and improve referral pathways between providers Response • 2.1 – Promote coordinated, needs led and risk focussed services, which incorporates crisis and long term support for survivors. Perpetrators • 6.1 – Work to prevent and challenge abusive behaviours and reduce the level of offences of VAWG • 6.2 – Maximise opportunities to engage with, challenge and give perpetrators opportunity to change

12. Key Strategic Actions Children and Young People • 5.2(i) – Promote a ‘whole family’ approach by supporting children and their non abusive parent whilst identifying and working with perpetrators to be accountable for their behaviour • 5.2(iii) – Create a network of lead professionals across agencies with a shared understanding of and VAWG to increase workforce confidence and identification • 5.29(v) – Develop parenting programmes that support wider relationships and their impact on child wellbeing...and early intervention parenting programmes that offer VAWG support • 5.2(vi) – Implement co location of specialist VAWG services within family service settings

13. For more information: Meghan Field, VAWG Strategic Lead Meghan.Field@rbkc.gov.uk 0207 361 3026

14. Angelou The primary frontline support for survivors of violence and abuse in the Tri-boroughs

15. A partnership of organisations tackling violence against woman and girls • Galop • Standing Together Against Domestic Violence • Advance • African Women’s Care • Woman’s Trust • Al Hasaniya • Hestia • Solace women’s aid • Women and Girls Network

16. What we offer as Angelou • Quality services with women at their heart • Seamless service for users • 2 key entry points but retaining existing entry points • A greater voice for users • Coherent, co-located services and systems

17. Our shared values • High quality VAWG services through great staff • Access for anyone in need • Safe spaces, safe women and girls • Co-ordination, co-location and seamless services • Broader services and step down help • Co-ordinated efforts to fundraise for other work • Wide publicity awareness and empowered referral agents • Women with a voice in the service • Links with strategic groups

18. How do you refer? • Through Advance and Ascent • Phone 0808 801 0660 (Freephone)Lines open: Monday-Friday 10am – 4pm, & Wednesday eve 6-9pm • Or call 020 8741 7008Lines open Monday-Friday 10am-6pm, & open until 9pm on a Thursday. • Email:  angelou@advancecharity.org.uk or advice@wgn.org.uk • Through all agencies

19. What is added and what is new • Greater “step down” • Specialist and new posts • Cohesive services which move around the woman/girl • Monthly one stop shops • Extended hours • Working together to increase capacity, fill gaps, add and adjust services • Learning between ourselves

20. Outputs and outcomes • 3,000 women and girls • Reduced risk and harm • Increased voices • Increased engagement • Database and publicity – better understood services • Improved access to services • Standard systems but tailored support

21. All change • This goes beyond our partnership of 9 • How can we make this work for you as referrers? • Feedback through steering groups and strategic groups

22. How will we know this is working? • Improved engagement from marginalised groups • Increased understanding from other agencies • Feedback coming through from users and referrers • Safe, well, independent women and girls • Prevention and links with pilots and other good practice

23. Contact us & events • Our launch in 22nd September 2015 • Upcoming drop-in dates: • Staff training: 11th September 2015 • www.angelou.org • Advance- specialises in working with women who have experienced domestic abuse. 02087417008 • African Women’s Care- an FGM specialist. 020 8969 8389 • Women and Girls Network- engaging & educating younger women. 020 7610 4678 • Woman’s Trust- therapeutic support for women when they are ready to explore & recover from their experiences. 02070340303 • Solace Women’s Aid- specialist staff trained in working with sexual violence. 02076191350 • Al Hasaniya- domestic abuse with Arabic communities. 02089692292. • Hestia- support for women who have experienced domestic abuse through specialist family work, refuges & group work. 02073783100.  • Standing Together Against Domestic Violence- an umbrella organisation which supports access to services, partnership working & awareness raising. 02087485717. • Galop- work with young girls who are lesbians, bisexual or transsexual where they have experienced domestic & sexual abuse and violence. 02077046767. • If you would like to refer someonePhone 0808 801 0660 (Freephone)Lines open: Monday-Friday 10am – 4pm, & Wednesday eve 6-9pmOr call 020 8741 7008Lines open Monday-Friday 10am-6pm, & open until 9pm on a Thursday.Email: angelou@advancecharity.org.uk • or advice@wgn.org.uk

24. Support professionals and the community to confront domestic abuse with confidence Nicole Jacobs Nicole.Jacobs@standingtogether.org.uk