The Warwickshire Safe Accommodation Strategy 2025 - 2028
The Safe Accommodation Strategy 2025 – 2028 outlines how Warwickshire will continue to implement the statutory duties associated with the Safe Accommodation Duty, as required by the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
It reflects on the previous Safe Accommodation Strategy 2021 – 2024, highlighting what Warwickshire has achieved in the past three years and describes how safe accommodation and support for domestic abuse (DA) victim-survivors will be provided across Warwickshire over the next three years.
The Safe Accommodation Strategy 2025 – 2028 will continue to focus on the five key objectives (as set out in the 2021 – 2024 strategy), these include:
- Early intervention and prevention: that victim-survivors (adults and children) are supported at an early stage and provided with options to remain safe at home to prevent homelessness. This includes holding perpetrators to account for their behaviour
- Accessible services: that victim-survivors and professionals know how to access safe accommodation options, both within and outside of Warwickshire.
- Appropriate safe accommodation: that accommodation options and appropriate support is in place for all victim-survivors who need it.
- Multi-agency delivery: that victim-survivors needs will be met by effective, collaborative multi-agency support.
- Support to return home or move on: that victim-survivors are supported to return home safely and/or move into alternative permanent accommodation.
To support the strategy Warwickshire has undertaken consultation exercises to engage with victim-survivors and professionals working in local services. The objectives set out in the strategy were developed in partnership with a range of statutory, community and voluntary organisations across the county.
The strategy seeks to facilitate a coordinated and strategic response to delivering the Safe Accommodation Duty and will complement the existing work across the county to address community safety, health and wellbeing and the housing needs of those who experience DA in Warwickshire.
View the Warwickshire Safe Accommodation Strategy 2025 - 2028 (PDF, 1.9 MB)