| Cheshire Domestic Abuse Family Safety Units 01606 351375 Getting Help | Domestic Abuse Family Safety Units | Cheshire Domestic Abuse Partnership | What's New | Resources | Your Voices | Children | Services for Men | Lifeline Voluntary Perpetrator Programme | FAQ Cheshire Domestic Abuse Partnership (CDAP) has been working since 1997 to provide a forum for effective multi-agency action and networking on domestic abuse. CDAPs priorities are: Prevention – working to prevent it happening and prevent recurrence once identified Protection – increasing legal protection for victims and accountability for perpetrators Provision – ensuring accessibility of support to rebuild lives
CDAP’s priorities are addressed through the provision of a range of specialist services and initiatives: awareness raising, training, early intervention for survivors and their children, better policing, education, effective risk assessment and safety planning, more effective criminal justice interventions, professional support through the criminal justice system, programmes to address the behaviour of perpetrators of domestic abuse, refuge provision for survivors and their children.
CDAP's publicity leaflet gives a summary of CDAP's aims and objectives, and the range of initiatives and projects co-ordinated in Cheshire for those exposed to domestic abuse.
CDAP's work was greatly enhanced by the development of the Home Office Crime Reduction Programme (2001-03), since when service provision has been mainstreamed and become more highly specialised and locally responsive. In April 2007 a major step forward was taken with the creation of two Domestic Violence Family Safety Units (DVFSUs) in the east and west of the county. These units house specialist domestic violence workers: a co-ordinator; independent domestic violence advocates (crisis intervention);outreach workers (long-term support). The work of the units is closely integrated with specialist domestic violence courts (operational in Chester and Ellesmere Port since September 2007, and planned for Crewe from January 2008), and the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferencing taking place in the Western DVFSU and starting in the East in Autumn 2007.
CDAP's strategic priorities for 2006-09 are: to increase the role of service users – adult and children – in shaping services to ensure survivor services funded in the voluntary sector or on a short term basis receive long term funding to develop a more proactive and safety focused multi-agency response through information sharing, risk assessment and agency accountability to expand services for adult and adolescent perpetrators of domestic abuse to continue to equip staff and communities to respond appropriately through generic and bespoke training and awareness programmes
For more information on CDAP's strategy you can download the full document - CDAP Strategy 2006-09. |