Victoria and GMP comparisons highlight challenges around perpetrator programmes in domestic abuse

27th November 2025Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

A recent report by the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre which explores the responses to family violence and domestic abuse in Victoria Police and Greater Manchester Police has highlighted the continuing challenges around successfully implementing support and change programmes for perpetrators of domestic abuse when services for victim/survivors are still inadequate, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports.

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Victoria and GMP comparisons highlight challenges around perpetrator programmes in domestic abuse

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