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If you or someone you know needs help and protection, we may be able to help you.

The Protection of Vulnerable Adults leaflet below will give you further information and advice.

If you have any concerns about the safety or welfare of an adult, you can call a confidential line for advice. This takes you through options for each area, so call 0800 0198 668 for more information.

Women’s Aid enlist Keira Knightly to assist with the campaign against domestic abuse, in a powerful advert called ‘Isn’t it time you called cut’ (opens in a new window).

County Forum on Domestic Abuse

The Derbyshire County Forum on Domestic Abuse has agreed to develop these web pages as a resource directory for all services and forums in Derbyshire. Please click the link in the More Information section below for a copy of the proforma for your organisation, service or forum to complete for inclusion on the website. Alternatively, you can email Andrew Hambleton at andrew.hambleton@derbyshire.gov.uk for a copy. 

Help available

Services in Derbyshire are committed to achieve the widespread acceptance that domestic abuse is unacceptable and illegal. They work together through local partnerships and the County Forum to ensure support is given to adults and children experiencing domestic abuse and to try and ensure that appropriate treatment for perpetrators is readily available and accessible.

The help provided takes full account of the persons wishes (including confidentiality) and can include:

• Providing support and protection to adult victims and their children including advice and information, support, legal protection, emergency re-housing and refuge
• Bringing perpetrators to justice
• Preventing violence       

Contact:

• In an emergency dial 999
• North Derbyshire Womens Aid 01246 540444 or email info@ndwa.org.uk
• High Peak and Derbyshire Dales Domestic Abuse Advice Service 0800 328 1242 or email darp.project@virgin.net
• Glossop Womens Aid 01457 856675
• South Derbyshire Council for Voluntary Service (ask for Jacqui Howells) 01283 550163 or email jacquih@southderbyscvs.org.uk
• Hadhari Nari Project 01332 270101 
• Derbyshire Police 0345 123 33 33 or click here for the address and telephone numbers of your local police force (opens in a new window)
• Next Step 01283 224024

Hiding your tracks online

If you are worried about someone knowing which web sites you have visited, you can take several steps to increase your safety when using the internet. The Victim Support site provides a practical guide to safe website usage.

To view the Victim Support guide to safe website usage click here (opens in a new window)
 
The only certain way to prevent anyone finding out which web pages you have been viewing is to use a computer they do not have access to; this could be at a local library, a friend's house, or an internet cafe.