Organisation: Standing Together Against Domestic Violence
Website:
www.standingtogether.org.uk
E-mail:
admin@standingtogether.org.uk
Your organisation aim: To promote for the public benefit the provision of services which are:
- Directed towards the prevention of domestic violence
- Meet the needs of survivors of domestic violence and their families.
To advance the education of voluntary and statutory agencies and the public in all aspects of domestic violence, including without limit, its causes and prevention and the relief of its consequences.
Objectives of Standing Together
1. To increase the safety of domestic violence survivors in the short and longer term.
2. To increase the safety of children who live with domestic violence.
3. To hold abusers accountable for their actions.
4. To ensure that the onus of holding the abuser accountable lies with statutory and other agencies rather than with the survivor.
5. Whilst acknowledging that each agency maintains its independence, to ensure that all the agencies involved work in an integrated and coordinated way with each other to achieve these objectives.
6. To provide accountability to the public, to survivors, and to other agencies for the ways in which domestic violence is handled.
7. To test and develop effective policies, procedures and practical measures which can be integrated into the ongoing work of agencies.
The objectives provide the framework for setting targets and monitoring and evaluating the Project.
Established in 1998,
Standing Together Against Domestic Violence (Standing Together) coordinated the first multi-agency response to the crime of domestic violence in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham and the first fully coordinated Domestic Violence Court. Standing Together influences national policy and practice by initiating and driving innovation, providing safer options for women and holding perpetrators accountable. Standing Together works to a definition of domestic violence in all intimate partner relationships. Standing Together means:
A coordinated response
Good practice by every participating agency
Monitoring against agreed aims
Inter-agency accountability
Tracking of offenders
Advocacy and support for every victim requesting it (currently those victims calling the police; accessing targeted emergency health services or the "sanctuary project" as a housing option).
