Extracts from committee stage (Lords) of the Domestic Abuse Bill
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab) [V]:...At Second Reading the noble
Baroness, Lady Williams of Trafford, spoke of investing more than
£7 million in direct perpetrator-focused interventions through
Police and Crime Commissioners to prevent abuse. She also promised
that the forthcoming domestic abuse strategy would include specific
work to tackle perpetrators and prevent offending. This is welcome
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Extracts from
committee stage (Lords) of the Domestic Abuse Bill
(Lab) [V]:...At Second Reading the noble
Baroness, Lady Williams of Trafford, spoke of investing more than
£7 million in direct perpetrator-focused interventions
through Police and Crime Commissioners to
prevent abuse. She also promised that the forthcoming domestic
abuse strategy would include specific work to tackle perpetrators
and prevent offending. This is welcome but not sufficient...
(Con):...With so much of the current discourse on domestic
abuse rightly focusing on victims, the term “perpetrator strategy”
can jar. For years perpetrators have barely been mentioned in
political debate, as if domestic abuse simply appears from thin
air. Only with robust action on perpetrators can we put an end to
domestic abuse, which is why the Government urgently need to
publish and fund a comprehensive strategy for England and Wales. As
the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, pointed out, colleagues inside and
outside this House are calling for it. More than 100 signatories,
spanning domestic abuse charities, Police and Crime Commissioners
police forces, children’s voluntary sector organisations,
academics and survivors, have asked the Government to set out this
comprehensive plan...
(CB) [V]:...The noble Lord, , set out
very many points—too many for me to say, on each individual one,
how much I agreed with him. But, however justified in any given
case, simply providing for some variant of justice in which
perpetrators are branded as intrinsically evil or criminal and
resource is focused primarily on due process and the support and
protection of victims and survivors does not, in my view, amount to
a comprehensive policy response. So I was very glad to learn both
from my local police and crime commissioner and again from the
Minister herself in a briefing last month about the £7 million
provided last year to Police and Crime Commissioners
for perpetrator programmes...
The Minister of State, Home Office ()
(Con):...Work has already begun on improving existing police
information systems. I am pleased to say that we have already
completed the first phase of work, looking into the current
functionality of ViSOR. The College of Policing has issued a set of
principles for police forces on the identification, assessment and
management of serial or potentially dangerous domestic abuse and
stalking perpetrators. More generally, as part of the £10 million
funding announced by the Chancellor in last year’s spring Budget,
we have now allocated £7.2 million—the noble Earl, , referred to it—in 28 funding awards to Police and Crime Commissioners
for the introduction of perpetrator programmes for domestic
abuse, including stalking, such as the Drive Project that noble
Lords have been referring to so positively...
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Commons
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