A Framework for Fairness-Barnsley by election 2011-Enis Dalton

How are we going to tackle domestic abuse and violence against women?

• Almost half of all adult women in England and Wales have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. 

• One in four women in England and Wales has experienced domestic abuse, a crime that has the highest rate of repeat victimisation of all crime and of all violent crimes.

• Nearly a third of violent incidents against women are domestic abuse related.

• One in three women seeking emergency medical care in UK inner city hospitals has experienced domestic abuse at some point in their lives.

• In addition to the domestic abuse they have experienced, 16% of women who have experienced domestic abuse have also experienced sexual assault by a partner since the age of sixteen.

• The rate of conviction for reported rape has decreased from 1 in 3 cases reported in 1971 to 1 in 8 reported case reaching trial in 2004 with only 5.3% ending in conviction.

• The abuse that they experience causes a great deal of physical and mental injuries to the women.

• Domestic abuse has long term consequences on the mental health of its victims.

• Over a third of female victims are likely to suffer emotional problems as a result; this includes depression, anxiety, psychosomatic symptoms and eating problems.

Women and children are more at risk of domestic abuse but most public resources devoted to domestic abuse are spent on men: catching, prosecuting and imprisoning them uses 90% of all resources dealing with the protection and convictions in the criminal justice system.

Indeed very little resources are devoted to prevention, early intervention and support to women and their children to enable them to move on from abusive circumstances.

The cost of not providing this support is substantial and includes; mental and physical illness, children in care and failing at school and women not able to work.

As well as the human costs there are costs to health, social services, housing, employment and education.

The total cost of domestic abuse for the state, employers and victims is estimated at around £23 billion. 

Domestic abuse has devastating consequences for both the individual victim and the wider society. It drains resources both to the public, voluntary services and of employers and causes untold pain and suffering to those who are abused.

This needs to be addressed and public authorities need to be made aware of the significant cost to society as a result of domestic abuse.

Enis Dalton and the British National Party hope that by addressing systematic discrimination this will lead to better equality of opportunity for both women and men.
 
In addition, Enis intends to systematically address the practices and attitudes that continue to maintain the power imbalance by discriminating against women. 

Moving Forward Together with Enis Dalton and the
British National Party. 

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