Domestic Violence

Getting Help In Tameside - 24 Hour Help Contacts

Women's Aid National Domestic Violence Helpline 0808 2000 247
Tameside Women's Project 0800 328 0967
The Men's Aid National Domestic Violence Helpline   0871 223 9986

Moving Forward | Tameside Women's Project Limited | Tameside Domestic Violence Forum | Information for Young People | Useful Contacts

• One women in four reports experiencing Domestic Violence at some time in her life
• The Home Office have concluded that approximately every three days one woman dies as a result of Domestic Violence
• Domestic Violence includes all kinds of physical, sexual, emotional and financial abuse between people who are or have been partners, whether or not married and whether or not living together. This includes same sex relationships
• People experience domestic violence regardless of their social group, class, age, race, disability, sexuality and lifestyle. It can happen in the home, or in a public setting.
• It can happen at any time during a relationship, including after a couple have separated. Pregnancy and the birth of a baby is often a trigger for abuse.

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Moving Forward

From emotional, physical, sexual and financial abuse

First Steps | What Next? | Move Forward | What to Take With You

First Steps

If you are experiencing any kind of abuse, you should take these three important steps: -

• Recognise that it is happening to you
• Accept that you are not to blame
• Get the help and support you need - you do not have to deal with this on your own. (See the list of contacts below)

Once you have taken these three important steps you may consider making a new life for yourself (and your children)

What Next?

Here are some useful actions:

• Think about what help your children - or anyone you look after - may need
• Contact a solicitor
• Speak to your bank
• Speak to Housing
• Visit your GP or Hospital
• Speak to Welfare Rights/the Citizen's Advice Bureau
• Contact Social Security
• Store personal valuables
• Arrange for the care of pets
• Consider the benefits of counselling

Moving Forward

You can choose to leave the person who is abusing you. Domestic abuse is recognised as a reason for priority housing.

In the short term, you could stay:

• With friends or relatives
• In a Women's refuge

If you want to go to a refuge, you can get help from the Police, hospital, Adult Services or the help lines listed here.

What to take with you

If you have the time - get your things ready:

• Change of clothes, underwear and nightwear for you and your children
• Toiletries/medicines
• A favourite toy for each child
• Small personal valuables and keepsakes
• Money for buses or taxis

Documents such as:

• Benefit books
• Bank books/account details
• Rent books/mortgage details
• Passports/Birth certificates
• Driving licence

Tameside Women's Project Limited

We are a residential refuge offering temporary accommodation to women and children fleeing domestic violence.

We can offer modern, purpose built single or family units, giving privacy and security. We also have a comfortable lounge and play rooms for children.

After you have moved on, from the refuge, an outreach worker can continue to support you for as long as you need.

Tameside Women's Project 24 hours Helpline 0800 328 0967

Tameside Domestic Violence Forum

We recognise that one agency cannot fully address the range of problems created by Domestic Violence.

As well as legal advice, victims of abuse may seek help for their children, the people they care for, pets, and need advice on issues of personal safety, health, housing, finance and welfare rights. It maybe people working with the children of victims who become aware of the problem and need to offer support.

This means people working in a range of services and organisations, including community and voluntary groups, need to be aware of what to do when they come into contact with Domestic Violence.

The Domestic Violence Forum brings together a number of key agencies to work together on domestic abuse, to reduce its incidence, to help the victims and to look at preventative work. Tameside's local community and voluntary sector is represented as victims often turn to non-statutory agencies for help. The Domestic Violence Forum is part of the Tameside Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership.

For more information about the Domestic Violence Forum, contact the Community Safety Unit - 0161 342 3997

Information for Young People

View Sorted - A Guide to Young People and the Law (Domest Violence)

Useful Contacts

• Adult Services:
  - Out of Hours Team - 0161 342 2222
  -Vulnerable Adults - 0161 342 2400
  - Children's Customer Services - 0161 342 4150
• Age Concern - 0161 308 5000
• Alternatives to Violence - 0161 832 3660
• Broken Rainbow (Gay Men, Bisexuals And Transgendered) - 020 8539 9507 (Website: www.broken-rainbow.org.uk )
• Childline - 0800 1111
• Connexions Tameside - 0161 330 1528 (Advice for 13 - 19 year olds)
• Greater Manchester Police - 999
• Housing Options Tameside - 0161 331 2700
• Loving Me (Lesbians and Bisexuals) - 0161 273 7128
• Male Advice Line and Enquiry - 0845 064 6800
• MIND - 0161 330 9223
• Off The Record - 0161 355 3553 (Counselling for Young People)
• Paws for Kids - 01204 69899 (Fosters pets and gives advice)
• Police Domestic Violence Unit - 0161 856 9363
• Public Transport - GMPTE - 0161 228 7811 (7.00am - 8.00pm Monday to Friday. 8.00am - 8.00pm Saturday and Sunday)
• St. Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre - 0161 276 6515
• Saheli (Asian Women) - 0161 945 4187
• Sojourners (African and Afro-Caribbean Women) - 0161 882 0632
• Substance Misuse Service - 0161 339 4141
• Tameside Branching Out (Substance Misuse - Young People) - 0161 343 6481
• Tameside Citizens Advice Bureau - 0161 330 2156
• Tameside MBC - Out of Hours Emergency - 0161 342 2222
• Tameside Women's Project 24 hour Helpline - 0800 328 0967
• Victim Support and Witness Service - 0161 339 9362
• Welfare Rights Service - 0161 342 3068 (Telephone Advisers available Monday, Tuesday or Friday between 9.00am - 12.00pm)
• Women's Aid Domestic Violence Helpline - 0808 2000 247