Domestic Abuse: Advisory Services

(asked on 13th November 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospitals have an independent domestic violence adviser service based permanently on-site.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 19th November 2018

The total number of full time equivalent (FTE) independent domestic violence advisers in England and Wales, each year since 2014 is provided in the following table. Data was not collected pre-2014.

Year

Total number of FTE independent domestic violence advisers

2017

897

2016

815

2015

746

2014

629

This data was published by the charity Safelives, in their 2016[1] and 2017[2] surveys of domestic abuse practitioners in England and Wales. In 2017, the percentage of independent domestic violence advisor services based in health settings was 15%2.


The Department does not hold information on the number of independent domestic violence advisor services provided in National Health Service hospitals or any information relating to the clients of such services.

Notes:

1Safelives’ 2016 Survey of Independent Domestic Violence Advisor provision in England and Wales, available at the following link:

http://www.safelives.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Getting%20it%20right%20first%20time%20-%20complete%20report.pdf

2Safelives’ 2017 Survey of Independent Domestic Violence Advisor provision in England and Wales, available at the following link:

http://safelives.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/SafeLives%202017%20survey%20of%20domestic%20abuse%20practitioners-web_0.pdf

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