Budgets are inadequate. There is virtually no flexibility in terms of moving on in the current shortage of affordable, social housing. Relate agreed to participate in the count. We received information from 75 of 96 Centres in England, and a count for Northern Ireland. The results give us much food for thought.
Research suggests that violence escalates during the separation process.
The implications of these figures are profound. To what extent the above overlaps with the work of the police, Victim Support and Women's Aid are only a matter of speculation. In summary, what the above suggests is domestic violence is not hidden. Using the British Crime Survey to gauge the truer proportion of domestic violence, we could say that an incident of domestic violence occurs in the UK every 6 to twenty seconds. In the past twenty minutes, for instance, somewhere between 60 and 200 incidents of domestic violence happened.