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Identifying a total lack of support for young people experiencing domestic abuse in Blackpool was the catalyst for an innovative pilot advisory service that began in 2009.
Before that, adult victims were being helped by health and social care charity Empowerment - a merger of Blackpool Advocacy and Lancaster District Women's Aid - through its commissioned domestic violence advice service.
Kerrie Fawcett, domestic abuse manager at The Den - the charity's dedicated children's independent domestic violence advisory (IDVA) service - says "there was just no support out there for children and young people [who had experienced domestic abuse] even though there was a huge need".
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