Draft Dorset Domestic Abuse Strategy

The Dorset Community Safety Partnership (CSP) is a statutory body that aims to reduce crime and the fear of crime, address risk, threat and harm to victims and local communities and facilitate the strengthening of Dorset's communities in the delivery of local initiatives. It co-ordinates partners' community safety activity in the Dorset Council area. The CSP also acts as the Domestic Abuse Local Partnership Board as required under the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.

For many years the Dorset CSP has been working hard to tackle issues related to domestic abuse. The CSP believes domestic abuse, in all forms, is completely unacceptable and not to be tolerated. It is committed to tackling it by preventing abuse from happening, supporting victims, and prosecuting offenders.

The draft Dorset Domestic Abuse Strategy describes how we will tackle and meet the challenges posed by domestic abuse in Dorset. Whilst the primary focus of the strategy has been to respond to the new statutory duties from the Domestic Abuse Act, we have gone further. We know accommodation-based support is just one part of a much wider response to domestic abuse, so we have also looked at the wider community response to domestic abuse.

We are seeking your views to help inform the Dorset Domestic Abuse Strategy 2021 – 2024. Please help us understand if we are on the right track by taking this short survey. You don’t need to have experienced domestic violence or abuse to take part and we are seeking the views of residents as well as professionals supporting those affected by domestic abuse.

The consultation will run for 4 weeks, from Monday 15 November to midnight on Sunday 12 December 2021.