Working together to break patterns of high-risk abuse.

Drive is aimed at perpetrators of domestic abuse who pose a serious risk of harm to those they are in relationships with.

Through a mixture of approaches, our team assertively reach out to perpetrators and disrupt patterns of abuse.

This work is part of the national Drive Project which aims to change systems so that perpetrators can no longer escape punishment for abusive behaviours and can access the help they need to stop.

Drive is about changing the conversation from ‘Why doesn’t she leave?’ to ‘Why doesn’t he stop?’

How does it work?

For Drive, we can only accept referrals through the Perpetrator Panels that are linked to Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs) in Manchester, Salford, Bury and Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

Potential participants must be identified as high-risk or high-harm and must have a partner or ex-partner already receiving support from an Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA).

Once a referral has been made, we take a needs-led approach, which means responding to individuals and families based on the specific levels of risk and external factors. We work with perpetrators and their families for up to 10 months, conducting one-to-one case work, reducing risk and working with the police and social services to disrupt patterns of abusive and harmful behaviour.

Our aims are to:

• Reduce the number of repeat and new victims
• Reduce the harm caused to victims and children
• Reduce the number of serial perpetrators of domestic abuse
• Intervene earlier to protect families living with domestic abuse

The Drive Partnership is made up of Respect, SafeLives and Social Finance.

For the first time, someone’s holding him to account, it’s not just me.

-Survivor of domestic abuse

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