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Your voice matters

These questions are asking you to think about and share your experiences of domestic abuse, how it affected you and if you have children how it affected them.  Reliving this can be traumatic.  If you do not feel comfortable answering certain questions please leave them blank.  Do not feel that you have to complete every answer, any information at all is invaluable in helping to improve services and prevent further domestic abuse and so if you need to leave some questions out to protect yourself from emotional distress then please do so.

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* 1. As a person that has experienced domestic abuse what are your thoughts on the terms victim and survivor of domestic abuse?  What other term would you use?

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* 2. What domestic abuse messages/campaigns do you think are the most important (please tick your top 5 most important messages):

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* 3. What do you think the priorities should be in Doncaster.

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* 4. Are there other priorities not listed above?

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* 5. In your opinion are there any minority or specific groups of people that require more specialist domestic abuse support?

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* 6. From this list which do you think are currently adequately resourced (i.e. they have enough money and staff to deliver the service to a good standard) and which require additional resourcing (please tick):

  Adequately resourced Requires further resourcing Not sure
Domestic abuse/healthy relationship education in schools
Community champions
Work with perpetrators
Support for victims (people who are actively experience abuse from their abuser)
Survivor support/groups (people who have separated from an abuser but may also include support for ongoing post separation abuse)
Specialist support for children that have witnessed/experienced domestic abuse
Out of hours telephone support (i.e. evenings and weekends)
Online chat service
Text support
Specialist support at Court
Survivor consultation
Domestic abuse campaigns
Specialist support for minority groups (please state which minority groups)
Refuge accommodation
Other safe accommodation
Sanctuary/target hardening (this is support to help a victim remain in their own home by providing additional security to keep the perpetrator out)
Emergency/flexible funding e.g. for transport, to set up a new home, a replacement mobile phone etc.
Training for practitioners
Confidence and self-esteem building for young people

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* 7. Do you think there is adequate safe and suitable accommodation for people fleeing domestic abuse?  Please provide further information

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* 8. Which agencies in Doncaster provided good support for you when you were experiencing abuse?

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* 9. Did they contact you or did you contact them?

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* 10. Which agencies in Doncaster were aware that you were experiencing domestic abuse and did not provide good support for you?

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* 11. Which agency/person did you contact first/contacted you first?

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* 12. How did the abuse make you feel?
Although there are feelings listed here, it is no way intended to suggest that you should have felt this way.  You certainly have nothing to feel guilty or ashamed about but we know that domestic abuse can sometimes leave us feeling this way.  If you still feel this way we urge you to seek help from a health professional, a domestic abuse agency, family, friends, colleagues, your employer or by contacting the Samaritans.

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* 13. Do you consider yourself to be from a minority group (e.g. have a disability, are LGBT+, a male victim, from an ethnic minority)?  If you are, do you think that services are aware of your needs?  What needs to be improved?

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* 14. How important are single sex services to you i.e. run by and for women or men only? 

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* 15. If single sex services are important to you which services should be single sex?

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* 16. How should good support for people who are being abused look and feel?

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* 17. What would good support for survivors look like (i.e. ongoing support after the abuse has ended)?

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* 18. People who have experienced domestic abuse are the best people to advise decision and policy makers about how services should be delivered, what is working well and what needs to be improved.  How could these decision makers make sure that your voice is heard?

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* 19. Would you be interested in forming a survivors network that comes together to share learning and improve responses in relation to domestic abuse and are asked for your opinion about service development, publicity campaigns etc.

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* 20. If you answered Yes please email: Karen.shooter@doncaster.gov.uk to register your interest or arrange to discuss further.

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* 21. Children section (if not relevant skip to question 28). 
As mentioned above, you can skip any questions that you do not feel comfortable answering.  It can be traumatic reliving your experiences and also thinking about how children might have been affected.
Did you have children living with you at the time of the abuse?

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* 22. How were they affected?

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* 23. Have they spoken with you about how they felt? If so what did they say:

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* 24. Was there support available for the children or whole family?

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* 25. If no, what support would you have liked? If Yes, what support did the child(ren) receive and did it help?

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* 26. Are they still affected by the abuse?

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* 27. We want to understand how many people in abusive relationships also witnessed/experienced growing up in a household where there was domestic abuse. Did you grow up in a household where there was domestic abuse?

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* 28. What more should we be doing to support children in domestic abuse situations and after the abuse has ended?

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* 29. What should we be doing to prevent young people from becoming victims or perpetrators of abuse in the future?

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* 30. Are you happy for your anonymous comments to be shared as part of our publicity/awareness campaigns.  We guarantee that no comments that could identify you or your children will be shared.

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* 31. How long ago did you experience domestic abuse? 

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* 32. If the abuse was a long time ago, do you think that services have improved or are they worse now?

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* 33. What was the outcome of your domestic abuse experience?  Please tick all that apply.

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* 34. What is your age?

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* 35. In what ward is your home located?

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* 36. What language do you mainly speak at home?

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* 37. Do you identify with any of the following religions? (Please select all that apply.)

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* 38. What is your gender?

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* 39. Do you consider yourself to be transgender?

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* 40. Which race/ethnicity best describes you? (Please choose only one.)

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* 41. What gender was the person who was abusive towards you?

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* 42. What relationship was the abusive person to you e.g. partner, sister, son, father, auntie etc.

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* 43. What type of abuse did you suffer?  Please tick all that apply.

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