Any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse (psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional) between adults who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sexuality." This includes issues of concern to black and minority ethnic (BME) communities such as so called 'honour killings'. An adult is defined as any person aged 18 years or over. Family members are defined as mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister, and grandparents, whether directly related, in laws or stepfamily. Broken Rainbow works with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals and the community to reduce the prevalence of homophobic, biphobic, transphobic and same sex domestic violence.
HELPLINE
08452 60 44 60
Mondays & Thursdays 2pm - 8pm
Wednesdays 10am - 1pm
National Centre For Domestic Violence, 08709 220704
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To r eport domestic abuse
There are several ways to report Domestic Abuse:
- in an emergency dial 999
- non-emergency 0845 8 505 505
- report personally at a police station