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From: James.Carson@aberdeenshire.gov.uk
To: michael.wiffen@mensaid.com
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:54 PM
Subject: FOI
Dear Mike,
Aberdeenshire Council does
not fund any domestic violence perpetratpr prorammmes.
James Carson
Information Officer (Social
Work)
31 High Street, Inverurie, AB51 3QA
01467 627255
----- Original
Message -----
From: finance.foi@aberdeenshire.gov.uk
To: dave.mortimer@mensaid.com
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 4:23 PM
Subject: Official request for information
Dear Mr Mortimer,
The Council has
provided funding to the following three projects which provide advice
and support to men and woman.
Banchory Refuge - £19,600
Turriff Refuge - £25,500
Outreach - £73,800
Yours sincerely,
Ross Brennan
Aberdeenshire
Council
Gordon House
Blackhall Road
Inverurie. AB51 3WA
01467 628210
ross.brennan@aberdeenshire.gov.uk
http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/
----- Original
Message -----
From: Philip.Marshall@grampian.pnn.police.uk
To: michael.wiffen@mensaid.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:50 PM
Subject: FOI REQUESTS 452 AND 458/06
Dear Mr Wiffen
Please see attached
reply to your requests for information to Grampian Police.
Yours sincerely
Philip G Marshall
Freedom of Information Officer
Grampian Police
01224 306955
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Message -----
From: Val.Milne@aberdeenshire.gov.uk
To: dave.mortimer@mensaid.com
Cc: Kate.Rigby@aberdeenshire.gov.uk;
Colin.Walker@aberdeenshire.gov.uk
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:31 PM
Subject: Domestic Abuse services in Aberdeenshire
Dear David
Aberdeenshire
Domestic Abuse Multi Agency Partnership does not collate information
on gender of service users separately. The work of the Partnership
is funded by the Scottish Executive in the main with additional small
streams of funding from Aberdeenshire Community Safety Partnership
and Aberdeenshire Homeless Strategy funding.
What I can confirm
is that services are provided according to need not gender. Our social
workers / outreach workers provide a service to men, women and children.
There are always men on their case loads at any given time. We do
have some ad hoc (sessions set up for 8 / 10 weeks depending on need
/ demand) group work set up for women and have attempted to do the
same for men. What we have found to date is that men have not been
as keen to engage in group work as women (this has been explored by
considering more suitable venues -the pub etc but we have been unable
to maintain attendance) It is our workers experience that men have
preferred one to one support to date. This is an issue we are still
exploring and hope to have some clear findings in due course. We did
have one male service user who was keen to provide peer and group
support and a lot of work was done to develop this but it did not
'take off'.
Our awareness
and publicity material has been carefully selected to ensure that
it is clear to the public that we provide services for males and females.
We have involved male and female service users in the development
of the materials.
You may also be
interested to know that in Aberdeenshire our social workers / domestic
abuse outreach workers work in partnership with Grampian police domestic
Abuse Liaison Officers (DALO's) and that both male and female workers
have filled these posts. We are currently recruiting domestic abuse
trainers (under the Scottish Exec Training Strategy) and again have
made a specific plea for male trainers as we very strongly believe
that all the work we do in this area must reflect a gender balance.
Yours sincerely
Val Milne
Strategic Development Officer
Chair of Aberdeenshire Domestic Abuse Multi Agency Partnership
Chair of Grampian Domestic Abuse Training Consortium
http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/
