Barking and Dagenham Domestic Violence Forum 

The forum website serves to provide essential information for victims and perpetrators of domestic violence and their friends, family and children. 

The forum also provides professionals working in the borough with information about domestic violence, referral guidelines for victims and perpetrators, and links to relevant publications, training and events engaging with domestic violence. 

Victim/suffering domestic violence, or know someone who is
Not sure if you are experiencing domestic violence? Need some practical advise? Want to know how to support a friend? 

Professional
As a professional, particularly if you are working in the public sector, you have a responsibility to detect and respond to members of the public experiencing violence and abuse. Find out some straightforward steps on what to do if someone is suffering domestic violence. 

Perpetrator, or know someone who is
Are you are being violent or finding your anger hard to manage? Know what you can do. 

Child or young person
Worried about the situation at home with your parents, or about your own relationship with your boyfriend or girlfriend?