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We Need Your Help!

CADA North East is a very small organisation working in partnership with Restored, Mothers’ Union and Newcastle City Council to make an impact in the North East in the area of domestic abuse within the Church. But we cannot do this without passionate, team-minded people who are willing to help.

If you are interested in finding out if you could help, please either contact us or click the link below for more details. We’d love you to join us in our fight against Domestic Abuse.

 
 
 
Sixteen Days of Prayer

25th Nov. - 10th Dec. 2024

Every day we posted a video of prayers focusing on violence against women and domestic abuse.

To review the 16 Days of Prayer please click below.

 
 
 
 
 
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Domestic Abuse. The Stats.

From the Office for National Statistics on domestic abuse (DA) across England & Wales:

Domestic Homicides (Deaths) between April 2019 & March 2022:

  • 370 (1 in 5 of all homicides where victim 16+)

  • 67% were female

March 2022 - March 2023:

  • 2.1 mil people 16+ experience DA

    • An estimated 1.4 mil women, and 751,000 men

  • Women are 2x more likely than men to have experienced DA since turning 16

  • 1.45 mil DA-related incidents & crimes recorded by police

    • This is roughly 28,000 every week (4,000 every day)

  • In 74% of DA-related crimes, the victim was female

  • On average, someone contacts police for help with DA every 30 seconds

From Northumbria Police Incident Data for the year March 2022 - March 2023:

In Newcastle:

  • 8,214 DA incidents (that’s 685 every month or 23 every day)

  • 44% involved children

  • Of 4,661 identified victims, 74% were female

In Northumbria:

  • 39,640 DA related incidents

    • 73% of victims were female

    • 27% victims were male

    • 43% of incidents involved children

But surely this doesn’t happen in churches?…Does it?…Sadly, yes it does. And more often than we might like to think.

The Church is in a unique position to help victims of domestic abuse but due to the complexity of the needs of victims it is important to get it right and we cannot get it right without awareness and training. The cost of getting it wrong is too high.