What you should know about domestic violence
What you should know about domestic violence
Domestic violence is the highest-volume single category of violent crime and yet one of the most under-reported by survivors and under-recorded by agencies.
1 in 4 women experience domestic violence at some point in their life.
Domestic violence often increases in severity and frequency over time, which will result in survivors contacting a number of agencies for a range of help and support, often without disclosing the root cause – domestic violence.
Domestic violence is widespread and persists within all groups of society.
Domestic violence affects the health, welfare and safety of a large number of women and children.
Domestic violence has enormous cost implications for employment, health, education, housing, legal and social services.
Domestic violence services receive limited resources to deal with the problems.
Domestic violence is the single largest cause of homelessness.
In 90% of domestic violence incidents, children are in the same or the next room when the violence occurs
29/03/2010 Nottinghamshire Domestic Violence Forum
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