Tackling Domestic Abuse Digital Conference

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Wednesday 23rd September 2026 09:30 – 16:00 Online

Westminster Insight’s timely and expert Tackling Domestic Abuse Digital Conference will take place online on 23rd September.

Domestic abuse has reached epidemic levels, demanding a whole-society approach and collaboration across services. This digital conference will bring together a range of voices from key stakeholders including government, police and criminal justice, victim support services, social services, housing, and charities.

With the Burnham government now at the helm, our expert speakers will look at key policies, new strategies, best practice, and multi-agency approaches for combatting domestic abuse, holding perpetrators to account, and supporting victims to leave abusive relationships.

Chaired by Jain Lemom, Head of Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls, MOPAC, attend to hear from a range of expert speakers on the major challenges and national priorities in tackling domestic abuse, including a keynote address from Aisling Barker, VAWG Operational Adviser, Public Sector Reform, Cabinet Office.

Prevention is key. We will spotlight early intervention and teaching; as well as prevention of re-offending, with Cheshire Constabulary covering best practice in perpetrator management. Male Allies Challenging Sexism will examine the link between misogyny and domestic abuse, and how to combat sexist attitudes in young men.

Frank Mullane, CEO, AAFDA will cover the Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths Accountability and Oversight Mechanism and recognition of the link between domestic abuse and suicide.

We will focus on victim protection and what happens when a victim leaves. Safeguarding victims both physically and mentally, through safe housing, tackling threatening behaviour, and helping victims with practical support and through trauma. We will also explore investments into domestic abuse services, and how local authorities and police can best use available funding.

The NSPCC will explore impact of domestic abuse on children. We will examine the experience of young people going through family courts, and how best to support children as victims of domestic abuse. 

We will explore proposed new powers for landlords to evict domestic abuse perpetrators from social housing – without the victim having to leave first.

We will look at more recently recognised domestic abuse behaviours, including the increasingly central role of economic and coercive control.  Specialist speakers will focus on tackling technology-related domestic abuse too, such as stalking, online harassment, and tracking victims.

Join us to gain crucial policy updates, share innovative strategies, and learn from inspiring keynote speakers.

Key Points

• Domestic abuse next step: the national policy context
• The piloting and roll-out of the Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths Accountability and Oversight Mechanism
• Perpetrator management: holding perpetrators to account within a victim-centred approach
• Housing and domestic abuse: refuge, safe houses, and proposed new powers to remove perpetrators from social housing
• Recognising children as victims, not just as witnesses, to domestic abuse.
• Supporting children and families through family courts and legal battles
• Understanding coercive control, technology-facilitated abuse, and economic abuse
• Addressing practical barriers to leaving: housing, finance, children, and pets
• Tackling online misogyny, and the encouragement of violent sexual behaviours, like strangulation
• Vulnerable groups, and high-risk factors, such as disability, and culture-related abuse
• Prevention through education – teaching young people about healthy relationships

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