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NOW ACCEPTING BOOKINGS FOR: CPD Older but no Safer Programme

Tuesday 24th February and Wednesday 25th February 2010 @ The Naomi Centre, Ballymena

A CPD Certified, awareness raising programme for organisations working with older people.

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Onus is a training and consultancy service specialising in domestic violence training and expertise for employers, employees and managers.

We provide a range of great quality training from basic to advanced levels and through our consultancy service we offer a bespoke service to employers and organisations requiring our specialist knowledge and skill in

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Onus responds to the needs of professional bodies, social partners and businesses to understand the context and impact of domestic violence within their working environment and the implications for policy and skills development and service planning as individual agencies

"Established as a social economy business, our value base, commitment to social justice and supporting the sustainability of services to women and children affected by domestic violence is important to us. "

Onus supports the continuation of core services for victims of domestic violence by ‘profit shedding’ to Women’s Aid Antrim, Ballymena. Carrickfergus, Larne and Newtownabbey.

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  • Every minute in the UK, the Police receive a call from the public for assistance for domestic violence. This leads to police receiving an estimated 1,300 calls each day or over 570,000 each year. (Stanko, 2000).

  • On average, two women are killed every week by a current or former male partner

  • One incident of domestic abuse is reported to the police every minute

  • British Crime Survey - an estimated 12.9 million incidents of domestic violence acts (that constituted non-sexual threats or force) against women and 2.5 million against men in England and Wales in the year preceding interview (Walby & Allen, 2004)

  • According to the British Crime Survey, only 40.2% of actual domestic violence crime is reported to the Police (Dodd et al, July 2004)

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