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Slough Children's Services Trust has developed a whole-family approach to supporting women, men and children affected by domestic abuse.
The trust aims to identify the problem as early as possible and to implement measures that will make a long-term difference to families.
It has been able to transform the way it tackles domestic abuse after a £1.4m grant was awarded in 2017 by the Department for Education's Children's Social Care Innovation programme.
Joanna Szuryn, the trust's domestic abuse co-ordinator, describes its approach as "holistic" and one that uses a systemic model of working with families.
"We work with all family members including the dads. We can really tackle the source of the problem and the large proportion of domestic abuse we know from research is perpetrated by men.
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