Strategy and policy
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Our vision and strategy
Our vision is for Birmingham to be a place where:
- domestic abuse is not tolerated
- everyone can expect equality and respect in their relationships
- everyone can live free from domestic abuse
Our 6 strategy priorities are:
- Whole systems approach
- make domestic abuse everybody’s business, with all partners working collectively and collaboratively as a network to respond to and prevent somestic abuse
- Prevention by changing attitudes and behaviours
- promote culture change through raising awareness with the aim of challenging attitudes that foster and perpetuate somestic abuse
- Prevention by early identification and help
- strengthen confidence and responses from all professionals to prevent escalation of risk and harm, and provide tailored support to survivors earlier
- Children and young people are protected
- raise awareness and understanding of healthy relationships
- identify, support, and where necessary, safeguard children and young people impacted by domestic abuse
- Safety, support and recovery
- keep survivors and their children safe
- commission quality assured support to survivors in safe accommodation
- develop a longer term and holistic offer to aid recovery
- Hold perpetrators to account
- develop an intervention pathway that sets out a range of actions that holds perpetrators to account at every opportunity across the system, whilst ensuring that survivors are protected from harm
Download the Birmingham Domestic Abuse Prevention Strategy 2024+
A live action plan is being tracked to ensure we jointly deliver this strategy by 2030.
You can also read our Birmingham Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment 2021 which informed our strategic work since 2021 and the 2024+ strategy.
Page last updated: 8 December 2025
