Introduction

DVAP can provide emotional and practical advice, and offer suggestions to help your situation or improve your safety. This could include contacting other agencies to help with:

• welfare benefits
• legal rights
• staying safe at home, including providing home security measures
• child protection issues and child-related services
• access to appropriate medical assistance
• help with housing options.

Contact the Domestic Violence and Abuse Partnership (DVAP) for advice and support.

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Contact us

Asking for help can be a difficult thing to do, but we will try to make it as easy as possible for you. If you want information or advice, or just want to talk to someone in a confidential setting, contact us.

You can call us Monday to Thursday 9am - 5pm, and Friday 9am – 4:30pm. If it’s busy when you call, please leave a message on the answerphone and we will get back to you as soon as possible, or you can email us.

When you call us

Your call will be answered by an experienced and qualified member of staff who will take you seriously, listen without judgement, and try to help you in the best possible way. They may need to ask you some questions to better understand your situation and the level of risk you may be at. It is your choice how much information you share, and you don’t have to answer anything you don’t feel comfortable with. 

What is domestic abuse?

Domestic abuse is a serious and widespread problem, although it is often hidden. It happens in all kinds of relationships, regardless of race, class, religion, culture, age, sexuality, disability or gender.

Every individual has the right to live free from fear, intimidation and abuse, especially within their own home. No one deserves to be abused or should have to accept intolerable behaviour. Domestic abuse is any form of unacceptable personal abuse.

If you are in an abusive relationship, there are three important steps you can consider:

• recognise that it is happening to you
• accept that you are not to blame
• get help and support.

Our services

Referrals

Our online referral form is the fastest way for you to contact us and ask for help. You can complete the form yourself, or visit any customer service centre and ask for a referral to be made to domestic abuse adult services. You can also be referred by a professional, such as your GP or social worker.

East Riding Domestic Abuse Strategy

The Domestic Abuse Strategy sends a clear statement from all the agencies involved in working with adults and children affected by domestic abuse that it will not be tolerated. The East Riding Community Safety Partnership and the Strategic Domestic Abuse Board have developed a partnership-wide domestic abuse strategy for the East Riding.

This is the second system-wide partnership strategy for domestic abuse in the East Riding, and sets out the aims and objectives for all partners in addressing and responding to domestic abuse over the next three years.