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Domestic Abuse Commissioner calls for wide reaching reforms to ensure safety of children in the Family Courts and accelerate government plans

News / July 18, 2023 March 1, 2024

Today the Domestic Abuse Commissioner has released a report highlighting ongoing concerns about the traumatising experience of the Family Court for victims and survivors of domestic abuse. The report outlines the Commissioner’s plan for wholesale change in the Family Court process. This comes as new research with legal practitioners found that more than 80 percent …

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The Domestic Abuse Commissioner responds to the Government’s response to ‘Safety Before Status the Solutions’

News / July 8, 2023 January 24, 2024

Today I have written to the Immigration Minister, the Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP, about my concerns in the Government’s response to my report published last December ‘Safety Before Status the Solutions’. ‘Safety Before Status: The Solutions’, lays out evidence-based estimates of the number of migrant survivors with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) in …

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The Domestic Abuse Commissioner responds to HMCPSI report into the CPS and domestic abuse

News / March 30, 2023 January 24, 2024

“I am really pleased to see that the inspectorate has conducted a review into the Crown Prosecution Service’s handling of domestic abuse cases. “This has highlighted some worrying trends and considerable areas for improvement which can’t be ignored when we are seeing the continued drop in domestic abuse prosecutions (down by a fifth since 2019) …

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The Domestic Abuse Commissioner responds to Victims and Prisoners Bill

News / March 29, 2023 February 13, 2024

The Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs, said today: “The victim’s bill has been long awaited by very many impacted by crime including domestic abuse and sexual assault and those working to support them, so today’s introduction of the legislation is welcome. I had hoped the Victims Bill would transform and even revolutionise the response to …

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The Domestic Abuse Commissioner holds her first ever Festival of Practice

News / March 27, 2023 March 27, 2023

Over the next two days the Domestic Abuse Commissioner is bringing together hundreds of people who have a role to play in tackling domestic abuse. Either through their lived experiences, or the work they do to support survivors. The first ever Festival of Practice, which is being held in Manchester on March 28th and 29th, …

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The time for lip service is over, says Domestic Abuse Commissioner.

News / March 21, 2023 January 24, 2024

In response to the publication of Baroness Louise Casey’s review into the Met, the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs, said: “The findings of Louise Casey’s year-long review could not be more distressing or damning: “institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia” which we see play out every day has extremely serious consequences for victims and survivors. “The experiences …

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Clare Wade KC’s raft of recommendations must be taken together

News / March 17, 2023 January 24, 2024

Two years ago, the former Victims Commissioner and I, among many other campaigners, called for a review of domestic homicide sentencing over concerns about gendered disparities in sentencing and more broadly in the criminal justice system. That review was completed last June, and I am delighted to read Clare Wade KC’s very comprehensive report which …

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Migrant survivors must not be allowed to fall through the cracks, says Domestic Abuse Commissioner as she calls for urgent overhaul of support

News / December 13, 2022 January 24, 2024

A report out today is calling for an overhaul of how Britain deals with one of its most vulnerable groups of domestic abuse victims – thousands of victims in the UK with an insecure immigration status who can’t get public funds. Data being released by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs, gives the first concrete …

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Exclusive new mapping data reveals a postcode lottery and patchwork of provision

News / November 29, 2022 March 1, 2024

Exclusive new data from the Domestic Abuse Commissioner has revealed the huge scale of inequalities in service provision for victims and survivors of domestic abuse across England and Wales. For the first time, pioneering new mapping by the Commissioner shows the extent of the disparities in levels of domestic abuse service from area to area, …

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Chancellor must put cost of living crisis and domestic abuse at the top of his agenda – lives depend on it

News / November 3, 2022 November 3, 2022

Cost of living crisis is rapidly becoming a national emergency for domestic abuse victims In some cases, this crisis could mean the difference between life and death for domestic abuse victims who can’t afford to leave perpetrators The crisis will only get worse as the winter months approach, warns Nicole Jacobs The Domestic Abuse Commissioner …

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