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.
This survey closed on Dec 12, 21. Thank you for your views.