Each year, the Policing Community Safety Partnership (PCSP) award a contract to deliver a One Stop Shop service for victims and survivors of Domestic Abuse and their children.  

This service provides a range of interventions including:

• Housing Advice – including housing rights and NI Housing Executive staff
• Legal Services – referral and urgent appointments/zoom with legal specialists in family and domestic abuse case law.
• Debt and Benefit Advice – including Community Advice Ards and North Down, and Bangor Jobs and Benefits teams.
• Early Years Support – engagement with childcare specialists to enable women to attend court, legal clinics or respite suport
• Signposting – to community programmes providing wrap around support such as Social; Supermarket and Food Bank

The team can also support service users engage with social services.  When PSNI attend a domestic abuse call, where children are in the home, a referral is made.  This can be additionally traumatic for victims.  Our team have years of experience working alongside social services and can help navigate the system.  

A dedicated website for the project has been created and can be found by clicking here