Domestic Abuse Services
Registered No: 1063140
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Domestic Abuse Services (formerly Scarborough Women’s Aid) is a registered charity with the following objective:
“The relief of poverty and physical or mental distress among people who have been maltreated by their partners with whom they are, or have been, living and among children of such families.”
We seek to achieve this objective by the provision of emergency refuge accommodation and outreach support services for those still living in the community, in the family home. In the past year we supported 55 women and 46 children in our refuge and 327 female and 6 male victims involving 348 children in the community.
We provide both practical and emotional support to victims to make it possible for them to remain safely in their own home or we support them if they are forced to move to alternative accommodation. Children who witness or over-hear violence against their mothers are psychologically and emotionally damaged. In adulthood, many of these boys will go on to become perpetrators of abuse, and many of the girls will go on to become victims, and so our intervention work with these children is largely preventative, aiming to break the cycle of abusive relationships.
“The relief of poverty and physical or mental distress among people who have been maltreated by their partners with whom they are, or have been, living and among children of such families.”
We seek to achieve this objective by the provision of emergency refuge accommodation and outreach support services for those still living in the community, in the family home. In the past year we supported 55 women and 46 children in our refuge and 327 female and 6 male victims involving 348 children in the community.
We provide both practical and emotional support to victims to make it possible for them to remain safely in their own home or we support them if they are forced to move to alternative accommodation. Children who witness or over-hear violence against their mothers are psychologically and emotionally damaged. In adulthood, many of these boys will go on to become perpetrators of abuse, and many of the girls will go on to become victims, and so our intervention work with these children is largely preventative, aiming to break the cycle of abusive relationships.
