Gateshead Domestic Abuse Strategy 2025-28
Governance
This Strategy is owned and endorsed by Gateshead Domestic Abuse Partnership Board (DAPB) on behalf of Gateshead Community Safety Board (CSB), and will be delivered through the work of the DAPB and its sub-groups.
The DAPB is responsible for supporting Gateshead Council to meet its statutory duty in relation to the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 by:
- Developing a local domestic abuse needs assessment, strategy and service delivery model to make Gateshead a safer place to live, work and visit; and
- Improving outcomes for victim/survivors of domestic abuse (adults and children) through a strategic approach to identifying and addressing gaps in support within community-based support and safe accommodation services.
The DAPB is made up of various responsible bodies and agencies that, by law, must be represented at the meeting. We will develop arrangements to provide an independent voice from people with lived experience of domestic abuse.
Gateshead Council
- Adult Social Care
- Children's Social Care
- Community Safety
- Public Health & Wellbeing
- Quality Assurance & Commissioning
- Gateshead Domestic Abuse Team
- Education
- Neighbourhoods and Localities
- Strategic Housing
- HR and Workforce Development
Safeguarding
- Gateshead Safeguarding Children Partnership
- Gateshead Safeguarding Adults Board
Policing and Criminal Justice
- Northumbria Police
- Probation Service
- Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner (Violence Reduction Unit)
Health and Wellbeing
- North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (Newcastle Gateshead)
- Gateshead NHS Trust (Queen Elizabeth Hospital)
- Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Representatives of charities and other voluntary organisations that work with victim/survivors of domestic abuse
- Tyneside Women's Health
- Oasis Community Housing
Domestic abuse is a key issue for all organisations and services involved in this strategy. It creates significant demand for services and, therefore, considerable cost pressures across all these areas of activity.
This strategy aims to align with the work of Gateshead Safeguarding Adults Board and Gateshead Safeguarding Children Partnership, and the following local and regional strategies:
- Community Safety Partnership Plan for Gateshead
- Gateshead's Health and Wellbeing Strategy
- Gateshead Homelessness Strategy
- Police and Crime Plan for Northumbria
- Northumbria Police Crime Commissioner's Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy
- North East and North Cumbria Women's Health Programme - Regional Needs Assessment
- Gateshead's Drug and Alcohol Strategy (in development)
- Gateshead's Suicide Prevention Plan (in development)