Right across England and Wales, local councils have been coping with successive cuts to their budgets for the past six years. Between 2010 and 2015, cuts to local councils amounted
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Valuable research at a North East university is in danger of not going ahead because of a lack of voices from a too often silent population. Male domestic violence is
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A woman has had 10 children taken from her care more than a decade after social workers raised concerns about substance abuse, domestic violence and neglect, a family court judge
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Fearless, the national support service for survivors of domestic abuse in Scotland has launched a new website. The site www.fearless.scot offers information and resources on the service and allows users
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More domestic violence victims will be able to access legal aid after the Government relaxed the rules because they were previously declared legally flawed by the Court of Appeal. In
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The number of sex crimes reported to police has passed 100,000 in a year for the first time, while homicides jumped by more than a tenth, official figures have revealed.
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Fans of The Archers have raised almost £100,000 for a domestic violence charity after another dramatic plot twist on the daily radio programme. The BBC Radio 4 soap shocked listeners
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A law to permit judges to address the “unenlightened views” of some jurors in sex crime cases and crack down on “revenge porn” has been passed by the Scottish Parliament.
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Researchers at the University of Bristol have received more than £2.5 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for research that aims to increase the safety and well-being
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Calls to the national domestic abuse helpline have soared by nearly a fifth in a year, fuelled in part by a hard-hitting storyline about coercive control in The Archers. Britons
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