Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab Co-op):...I thank Mike Kane, the
local MP who supported the campaign for many years; Laura Hitchen,
the local solicitor in Manchester who highlighted how widespread
the problem was; Councillor Sarah Judge, who works at Safespots;
all the Safespots women who are victims of abuse and who stood up
and decided to change the law; Manchester City Council and the
other local authorities that gave their support to the campaign;
all the Police and Crime Commissioners who...Request free trial
(Lab Co-op):...I thank , the local MP
who supported the campaign for many years; Laura Hitchen, the local
solicitor in Manchester who highlighted how widespread the problem
was; Councillor Sarah Judge, who works at Safespots; all the
Safespots women who are victims of abuse and who stood up and
decided to change the law; Manchester City Council and the other
local authorities that gave their support to the campaign; all the
Police and Crime Commissioners who gave
their support, including my noble friend ; Sue Macmillan, my good friend for many years, who got the
Mumsnet campaigners on the case; Charles Hymas, the home affairs
editor of the Daily Telegraph, for shining a light on the issue at
the right time; my good friends , for kindly raising the issue in the other place,
and , for
her valuable advice and support; the noble Baroness, Lady Bertin,
who supported me in Committee, along with the noble Baronesses,
Lady Bull and Lady Burt of Solihull, the right reverend Prelate the
and the noble
Baroness, Lady Newlove, who has always been supportive and who
encouraged me to carry on; and noble Lords of all parties and on
the Cross Benches who have supported me in my numerous questions to
a variety of Ministers, whom I thank for their responses to all the
amendments to government Bills that I have moved over the years. I
have involved officials from at least four government
departments...
(CB) [V]:...At Second Reading I pointed out
the work described by the Sussex police and crime
commissioner about the cost-benefit of dealing with
perpetrators. This is the critical point of this group of
amendments: the proper identification, assessment, monitoring,
management and application of therapy to perpetrators is
cost-effective and of lasting general societal benefit. My
information is that, while some perpetrators may be psychopathic
and incurable—with apologies if I have used the wrong term—many are
themselves suffering from deep-seated inadequacies that can and
should be addressed...
(Con):...We continue to build up our evidence base to inform
this work. As part of the spring Budget last year, the Chancellor
allocated £10 million to fund innovative approaches to tackling
perpetrators and preventing domestic abuse. This included more than
£7 million for Police and Crime Commissioners to
support the adoption of a range of domestic abuse
perpetrator-focused programmes in their area. This funding included
a requirement for PCCs to conduct an evaluation of their project to
strengthen the evidence base of what works to prevent reoffending.
I am very pleased to confirm that we have now also provided more
than £500,000 to 11 research projects to help improve our
understanding of who carries out domestic abuse, how and why it
occurs and how to prevent it...
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