Our project on Clare’s Law, funded by the British Academy, included talking to women about their experiences of this scheme, how information was shared with them (if there was any), what they thought of the process, and what they did and did not do as a result. The findings, published in The Journal of Gender
This was the headline of an article published in The Observer on Sunday May 9th. It reports that a quarter of police forces fail to disclose information under Clare’s Law/ The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (DVDS), within the recommended 35 days. It expresses the view that bringing this initiative under statutory regulation will require police
On International Women’s Day (8th March) 2014, Clare’s Law was rolled out nationally across England and Wales following a pilot project the previous year. At this time, I was working on an innovative multi-agency domestic abuse team which was located within children’s services. My main role was to deliver domestic abuse awareness group work to
Over the last thirty years it has become increasingly popular to name laws after a victim. This is often based on the presumption that it was the absence of such a law that contributed to their demise; if the law had been in place they would not have been victimized. Using victim’s names in this
