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National Strategy to Address Domestic Abuse in Scotland

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REVIEW

The Strategy will be reviewed at the end of a three-year period (2003). Local strategies should also be reviewed to provide some of the supporting evidence from their own areas, and to feed this in to the national process. In addition to assessing work undertaken in relation to the actions identified, a number of outcome measures will be used at this stage, where available, for the national strategy, including both quantitative and qualitative measures.

Quantitative measures

• the reported incidence of domestic abuse (using civil and criminal statistics);

• the levels of prosecution and conviction of perpetrators and re-offending rates;

• the number of homelessness applications from women fleeing violence;

• the level of use of the helpline;

• the level of service use in relation to domestic abuse;

• the level of service provision in local areas;

• the number of fully accessible refuges;

• the number of requests for translated information and information in other formats;

• the number of schools developing work;

• the level of funding provided to new and existing domestic abuse projects and the development of new initiatives across Scotland;

• the overall level of resource provision and sources of provision to domestic abuse work;

• the existence of local multi-agency working, local strategies and action plans.

Qualitative measures

• perceptions of both women and children in relation to the services available;

• users' experiences of services used and the process of service use;

• perceptions of both women and children of the strategy;

• perceptions of unmet need;

• service providers' perceptions of domestic abuse;

• public awareness of, and attitudes to domestic abuse;

• the findings of evaluation of funded projects;

• the findings of local strategy reviews;

• evidence of mainstreaming of domestic abuse work, where developments in other policy/services include consideration of this issue;

• evidence relating to progress on work to address other forms of violence against women;

• the development of change in relation to each of the actions identified in the strategy as required.

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