Community Safety Partnership

Domestic Abuse

The Additional Security Project was set up by the Council led Multi Agency Partnership to tackle Violence Against Women and is supported by the Council’s Community Safety Partnership. It aims to improve services for women and children experiencing domestic abuse. The project offers a range of security measures for women and children, who have experienced domestic abuse, to allow them to feel safer in their own homes.

What is Domestic Abuse?

The Scottish Partnership on Domestic Abuse has defined domestic abuse as:

“Domestic abuse can be perpetrated by partners or ex-partners and can include physical abuse (assault and physical attack involving a range of behaviour), sexual abuse (acts which degrade and humiliate women and are perpetrated against their will, including rape) and mental/emotional abuse (such as threats, verbal abuse, withholding money and other types of controlling behaviour such as isolation from family or friends).

Children are witness to and subjected to much of this abuse…

Domestic abuse is associated with broader inequalities in society, is part of a range of behaviours constituting male abuse of power, and is linked to other forms of male violence, such as rape and child abuse. Domestic abuse occurs in all social groups, is not caused by stress, unemployment, poverty, alcohol or mental illness, nor by the women who experience the abuse….”