Bedfordshire Domestic Abuse Partnership
Bedfordshire Domestic Abuse Partnership Welcome to the Bedfordshire Domestic Abuse Partnership (BDAP). The Partnership brings together key agencies across Bedfordshire to raise awareness, to deliver services and to work together to improve our local response to domestic abuse. At BDAP we work closely with local authorities and other agencies to provide services in the local area, we deliver a two-tier training programme for professionals who work with those affected by domestic abuse and we strive to bring all those agencies working locally together to ensure a coordinated response to domestic abuse. BDAP also coordinates the monthly Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC) and the Domestic Abuse Champion Scheme in both Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire
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It’s nearly time for the start of 16 Days of Action!
On 25th November the campaign will begin; across the the counties that we cover there will be events and activities to raise awareness of the Hidden Victims of domestic abuse and the support that is on offer for them. It is not acceptable for anyone to suffer domestic abuse! Look out for more information here…
16 Days of Action Campaign
16 Days of Action against Gender Based Violence 2018 This year the 16 Days of Action against Gender Based Violence Campaign that the Bedfordshire Domestic Abuse Parternship is running, will highlight Hidden Victims; including young people, male victims, same sex couples, Honour Based Violence and Stalking; we want to shine a light on…
Central Bedfordshire’s Strategic Manager for Domestic Abuse
Our last blog was a bit of an introduction to how the new Domestic Abuse Team in Central Bedfordshire is shaping up. This week we thought we’d share a little bit more about the things we’re doing day to day to challenge the domestic abuse that goes on in our communities and to improve the…
The new Domestic Abuse team; Finally, all in post and raring to go!
The Domestic Abuse team at Central Bedfordshire has had a bit of a make-over in the last few months with a new team-member starting in February, April May and June. We had our first full team meeting last week where we put together the team’s vision and aims and are now ready to formally introduce…
BDAP’s Myth Busting Beliefs and Stereotypes Professionals Event
Last Thursday we held our first BDAP professionals event “Myth busting Beliefs and Stereotypes of Domestic Abuse”. We prepared the room, ordered the biscuits, hooked up the power points in council chambers at Priory House and nervously waited to see how many of the delegates we’d invited actually arrived. All in all 80 delegates from…
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