Addressing Domestic Abuse

09/10/2026

Trigger warning before watching! It is so brave of Natasha to speak out about this. Her experience highlights so many things, one being that post separation is often the most dangerous time for a survivor of domestic abuse and its not as easy as just leaving an abusive relationship, this is the time most domestic homicides happen. The silent alarm is a fantastic feature to be aware of. If you call the police but are unable to speak, pressing ‘55’ alerts the call handler of this. Well done Northumbria Police, between Natasha’s quick thinking and bravery and the speedy police response, a life has been saved 👏

26/09/2026

This week our Director Deborah Alderson had the privilege of speaking to School Designated Safeguarding Leads from across the North East with Safeguarding Matters and the fantastic Helen Hogan.

We know what a critical role education professionals have in safeguarding children, when domestic abuse is happening at home it is often the only safe place they have.

Creating an environment where a child feels safe, may provide them with a lifeline and the confidence to understand they can seek help and be supported.

We look forward to the next event 🤗

11/09/2026

Our Director Deborah Alderson has spent the last couple of weeks training to qualify in the Domestic Homicide Review and Domestic Abuse Related Death Review Chair role.

It is a privilege to be in a position to carry out such an important role, ensuring victims and their families are represented with respect, and effective multi-agency learning is identified to ensure preventable deaths don’t happen.

Thank you AAFDA for this training delivery and thank you to the cohort of speakers and other course delegates for sharing your very impactive experiences.

Kelly Henderson

02/09/2026

Fantastic news! 🤩 We are delighted to update that Addressing Domestic Abuse has signed the Armed Forces Covenant and submitted a pledge to support the Armed Forces and any organisation that works with them. We can tell you more soon about specific work we are doing with Veterans, watch this space and check out our website for more information! 👀

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Deborah Alderson
Kelly Henderson
Gavin Oxburgh

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25/08/2026

Exciting developments to come 🤩🫶

We have just had an excellent Directors meeting discussing new and exciting business developments and innovative ways to address domestic abuse!

Check out our website to see more about our work and services 🤗

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Deborah Alderson
Kelly Henderson
Gavin Oxburgh
Winton Keenan QPM DL

22/08/2026

Lobbying government for change can feel like an uphill battle but persistence does work and yesterday was a good day! 🤩

At the end of last year, our Director Deborah Alderson along with Deborah Jones presented a business case to ministers at Westminster to carry out a large scale pilot of a 24/7 GPS proximity system for domestic abuse perpetrators. Sir James Timpson and Alexandra Davies-Jones listened and supported the proposal!

Yesterday we sat on the first national key stakeholder group meeting for implementation of this system, alongside some fantastic sector leaders and Ministry Of Justice SMEs.

The voice of victim survivors is key to designing a system together that actually works, if implemented effectively it will hold perpetrators to account immediately and truly safeguard by ensuring a coordinated multi-agency response. It is not a solution on its own but is a really powerful option which has absolutely proven to save lives where adopted in other countries.

Lots to do but the journey has started and I cant wait for this to become business as usual!

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Kelly Henderson
Gavin Oxburgh

12/08/2026

Our directors had a very productive visit to Raddison Blu Durham yesterday to meet Wendy Bryant, Director of Events and Stuart Lloyd, General Manager. The support for our work was amazing, we are very excited to be working together 🤗 more details to follow soon 😍. Bringing national events to the North East 🤩

Deborah Alderson
Kelly Henderson

15/07/2026

A brilliant trip to Thenue Housing Association for our Directors, delivering Understanding Domestic Abuse and Trauma Informed Practice for Housing Professionals training. Such engaged and passionate delegates and some great conversations 🤗

Deborah Alderson
Kelly Henderson

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12/07/2026

We are very proud of our Addressing Domestic Abuse Volunteer Tiana Brown 👏 graduating with first class honours in Criminology at Northumbria University. We are very lucky to have her working with us and we know she will be amazing at whatever she chooses to do next 🤩😍

Deborah Alderson
Gavin Oxburgh
Kelly Henderson
Beverley Thorpe