Information for Workers
Glasgow responding to violence against women
Glasgow has a long history of work to address gender-based violence both within the voluntary sector and within pockets of the statutory sector. Within this website, the Glasgow Violence Against Women Partnership has brought together key agencies that have a role in responding to women and their children who have experienced male violence.
Why we focus on male violence against women
In the main areas of recorded violence, (domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, sexual violence against children, including incest) and in recent research into the extent of violence, we find that overwhelmingly it is women who suffer violence and overwhelmingly it is men who behave violently.
It is important for us, as workers, to acknowledge links between different forms of violence and to be aware of the continuum of violence against women and children. This focuses on male violence against women. We must also acknowledge the importance of understanding links between violence against women and child protection.
Acknowledging and responding to the gender issues does not mean dismissing or minimising other areas of violence, such as female to male violence, female to female violence, violence within same sex relationships, violence against children, disabled people or elderly people. These issues are also important and deserving of attention. However, any work on violence against women needs to clearly acknowledge gender issues in violence in order to effectively address the problem.
Resources
- Women Where to Go 2006 (PDF Document)
- Women Where to Go 2006 (Microsoft Word Document)
- East End Training Pilot Evaluation (2005) (Microsoft Word Document)
- Counselling services, psychological therapies and other support available to asylum seeker women and young children (Microsoft Word Document)
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| Briefing Paper on the Two Year Rule |
Strategic Plan |
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| Self Harm and Suicide amongst Black and Minority Ethnic Women: A Conference Report | Positive Responses to Domestic Abuse within Asylum Seeking Communities |
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| Information Pack for Deaf Women about Violence against Women |
The GVAWP has led on two major multi-agency developments; ASSIST which aims to improve responses to domestic abuse and the Sexual Assault Referral Centre otherwise known as the SARC. Please find below a series of documents related to these two developments.
- Evaluation of SARC Development process (MS Word document)
- ASSIST (MS Word document)
- GVAWPB Executive Summary Part 1 (MS Word document)
- GVAWPB Part 2 (MS Word document)
