Westminster Homelessness Partnership inc. St Mungo's The Passage Charity The Connection at St Martin's @wlm_uk Westminster City Council are working together to #EndStreetHomelessness. New blog explores what they've learnt during the emergency response to #COVID19 bit.ly/3i7qwEy Collaborate

Over the last 18 months, Collaborate have been working with Homeless Link to understand how ideas about systems change can help those working to improve local responses to homelessness. Read all about it here ⬇️ collaboratecic.com/changing-local…

“[Specialist courts] are able to present information clearly and they consider the experience of the victim.” Domestic Abuse Commissioner @nicolejacobsST says specialist courts produce better outcomes when it comes to dealing with domestic violence, avoiding bias #Newsnight

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“We have to do so much more to end Domestic Abuse.” 📲 We caught up with @nicolejacobsST, the first ever Dame Nicole Jacobs for England and Wales. #YouAreNotAlone 💜

#TheHamiltonCommission Report this week & my APPG Report out next week show that #diversity and #inclusion must be at the heart of the Gov #STEM agenda and our economic recovery. Thank you Lewis Hamilton & Royal Academy of Engineering for your leadership on this bit.ly/2USyrPr

If you want to find out what inspires to do my job as the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, what gets me out of bed in the morning and what I would tell my 18-year-old self then please watch this film. It's part of a new series that Home Office has launched. Hope you like it!

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NEW: The domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales @nicolejacobsST has written to the Home Secretary to call for urgent changes to the policing bill to help protect victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence 1/

The commissioner is backing an amendment laid down by the Conservative peer Gabby Bertin and others calling for domestic homicide, domestic abuse and sexual violence to be explicitly included in a new duty for local areas to tackle "serious violence" 2/

Amazingly - only 8 out of 18 Violence Reduction Units in England consider domestic abuse in their serious violence strategies, with one telling the commissioner they were advised against including it on the basis of Home Office guidance 3/

Moreover around half of police forces have not put in place a programme of training around domestic abuse. And (I just can't get over this) the government's Serious Violence Strategy does not recognise domestic abuse as a form of serious violence (WTF!) 4/

At the moment the policing bill doesn't list lots of crimes in the bit about this new duty for local areas because it wants councils to have flexibility espesh with regional variations. But Jacobs is clear that domestic abuse and sexual violence is everywhere 5/

The bill does include two crimes, to make sure local areas include them in their definitions - "violence against property" and "threats of violence". Jacobs and Bertin and others think it is urgent to make it an explicitly duty to include sexual violence and domestic abuse 6/

Otherwise local areas and agencies could fail to include these crimes (especially if they refer to the serious violence strategy for a definition). After today's report Jacobs is pressing Priti Patel MP on this urgently - I've asked HO for response 7/7

I have written to Priti Patel MP to thank her for the HMICFRS report and to ask for an urgent discussion on #PolicingBill. HMICFRS raises concerns that the proposed Serious Violence Prevention Duty in #PolicingBill does not explicitly inc VAWG. It must. domesticabusecommissioner.uk/letters/letter…

The responsibility is on police to restore trust in their ability to protect women theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Our #GeekoftheWeek goes to Hannah Gousy and the team at Dame Nicole Jacobs for collating powerful data highlighting how police forces don't always treat domestic abuse and sexual violence as seriously as they should. Watch Anushka Asthana explain more below 👇 #Peston

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We need to work harder to remember the lessons from the pandemic, and how they help us build healthier communities in an even more complex reality, says Collaborate’s CEO Anna Randle 🌱. bit.ly/collaboration-…