Lincolnshire domestic abuse charity still seeing high demand for its services
The numbers coming forward rose significantly following lockdown
A domestic abuse charity in Lincolnshire say they’re still dealing with a huge demand for their support.
The Domestic Abuse Bill passed last year - which aims to help victims.
Edan Lincs has welcomed that, but says there’s still a long way to go.
It's not expecting to see a drop anytime soon.
Meanwhile they also want to see more support for children who have experienced domestic abuse.
Legislation was also passed last year which means children can be victims in their own right, rather than just witnesses.
Edan Lincs say this is on the right path, but there’s still a long way to go, adding that children need to have more support whilst they’re in refuge.
We spoke to Mandy from the charity.
She told us: "No matter how much support you put in we're still having 2 women a week murdered".
"That's something we haven't managed to change despite the services we have out there,"
"There's a lot of work on working with the perpetrator but my personal opinion is I don't think it'll come down, I think people are more alert to what they're living with now than what they were prior to Covid."
"I think until we get into more intense work in schools around healthy and unhealthy relationships, take fully on board the added impact of social media and 24 hour access to abuse."
"I think until we get in there and start doing that work on a more intense basis I'm not sure myself how we will actually change the outcome."
"What I want to do is have a pot of money where we're able to take children out for activities over the summer holiday, a fun day out where they can have a good memory and help to reduce the trauma through providing happy memories."