Adult Domestic Abuse in family

This essay discusses the impact of domestic abuse on adults, laws and policies in place to protect them, and social care support available. It covers the UK government's Domestic Abuse Bill, safeguarding adult care, and the need for greater awareness and training. The essay concludes that domestic violence is a serious issue that requires immediate attention and action.

Adult Domestic Abuse in
family

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAINBODY....................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
Online:....................................................................................................................................8
Abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults, 2021 [Online] Available Through
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/help-from-social-services-and-
charities/abuse-and-neglect-vulnerable-adults/................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Domestic abuses can be defined as a specific pattern of behaviours in any relationship
that is utilized to gain or maintain control over an individual. The form of domestic abuse can be
physical, sexual, emotional along with psychological consisting of actions or threats in order to
influence other individual. Domestic abuses involves behaviour that frightens, intimidates and
injures someone. It can happen to anyone irrespective of their age, race, orientation or gender.
The following essay will consist understanding the topic of adult domestic abuse in family along
with laws, polices and social care provided. The essay will also summaries development
regarding legislation, policy and social care along with development of an argument relative to
the topic.
MAINBODY
The topic of support required by adults who are exposed to domestic violence is crucial
to understand in order to gain the perspective of how and what initiates such incidents. The topic
is important to be evaluated in order to understand what actions can be taken in order to provide
the essential support to the adults who have encountered domestic violence. The crime survey
from England and Wales cover the ages of 16 to 59 years old. The fugues for the ending of
march 2015 have elaborated that both adult men and women have been a victim of domestic
violence(Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme). Although the survey has highlighted adult
women are more likely to suffer from domestic violence almost twice more and start to
experience domestic violence at the age of 16. the survey highlights that both adult men and

women have reported mental as well as emotional problems as a consequence of domestic abuse
which have been followed by difficulties in trusting people or in other relationships. This makes
it vital to provide them necessary support in order to reduce the overall negative impact on the
individual as well as the society(Responding to domestic abuse). In order to eliminated the issues
of domestic violence and to provide aid to adults who have are a victim of domestic violence it is
crucial to gain support of laws as well as policies in order to protect abused individuals. In
addition to this, there has to be essential social care support to provide individuals of domestic
violence all necessary need such as emotional and physical therapy that can allow them to have a
normal life and have a positive impact on society.
The laws such as the Humans Rights Act 1998 has a essential role in providing support
to adults who have been a victim of domestic violence. The law allows the state to effectively
intervene in privates and family life in order to protect the health as well as rights of the victim.
In addition to this, the Care Act 2014 enables the local authorities to provide service to adults
who have been a victim of domestic abuse and provide them well being. The Care Act 2014
requires safeguarding adults boards who are provide with the duty to safeguard inquiries in
certain circumstances(Abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults). This is due to the fact that adults
how have suffered from domestic violence may not be able to protect themselves and are
protected by statutory safeguarding duties.
The social care support from the social care is provided by policies at the NHS through
Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme which is allows know as “Clare's Law”. This scheme
enables the authorities to discloses information to a victims or a potential victims of domestic
violence about their partners previous violated offence. This helps in the victim to distant
themselves and receive proper guidance in order to be safe from domestic violence through the
social support of authorities. The NHS further provide necessary helpline in order to help both
adult men and women who are a victims of domestic violence. In addition to this the NHS
provided essential details on their website in order to provide crucial detail to both the victim as
well as their close friends and family (Domestic violence and abuse). This allows in spreading
the awareness related tot he topic of domestic violence and how individuals can effectively
identify and help people who are a victim of domestic violence. These established policies , laws
along with social care can help in reducing and hopefully eliminating the issues of domestic
violence of adults. This will help in promoting a harmonious society where individuals can live

without the fear of being abused by someone. Furthermore, there has to be development of new
laws and polices that can provide further aid to victims of domestic violence.
The UK government has implemented certain laws for protecting the children and
teenagers from domestic abuses. For this purpose the UK government has amended Domestic
Abuse Bill that will be helpful to provide significant protections to the teenagers and adults from
domestic violence(Fischel‐Wolovick, 2020). A series of amendments has been made to the
Domestic Abuse Bill in order to provide greater protections for victims and further clamming
down on perpetrators. The amendments would propose making legalities against the violation of
this law as a punishable offence. The law is made by keeping in mind the fact that abuses not just
causes a visible injury, but it causes more harm than that of physical. The laws are made by
keeping in mind about the psychological harms that are cause on the adults and teenagers by the
abuses.
The government laws will also focus on controlling the coercive behaviour and reframe
the law that states that abused and the abusers need to live together(Sammut-Scerri, Vetere and
Abela, 2020). It would also include the trauma and highlight the abuses of ex-partners on the
teenagers and children. The government would also bring in the amendments on so called
'revenge porn' laws regarding publicly threatening by disclosing the intimate images. The
government would also legislate laws related to cross examination of abused and abuser along-
with barring orders in family courts to make laws on preventing abusive ex-partners from
repeatedly dragging the victims to the courts. It has been observed from latest news that
domestic abuse bill has became a law(Saxton, Jaffe and Olszowy, 2020). There are certain
amendments have been made in order to make the law effective and result-oriented as well.
Domestic violence is a very serious problem where it should be rectified on immediate basis so
that the victim need not to suffer for longer period of time. This law is not framed on biased basis
and it has covered all types of gender whether it is female or male. Under this law, rough sex
defence has been banned, non-fatal strangulation has become an offence in its own right and
threats to share intimate images has become illegal(Sobchack, 2021). UK government has also
introduced coercive and controlling behaviour within the non-statutory government definition of
domestic abuse. Adult domestic abuse has affected not only the health of an individual but it also
impacts the mental well-being of a person. The strict rules and regulations and laws not only

support the victim but also gives strength to move forward from this unethical activity. These
laws and regulations act as strong parameter for the victim individual so that they can again start
their life and can also expect justice from the law so that it can give relief to their mindset as
well. So it is important that government should always remain active in terms of these illegal
activities so that they can protect their people from this abusive and shameful activities.
A considerable proportion of safeguard of adult care works in England relate to neglect or
abuse of people with support and care needs who are living in their houses(Robinson, Ravi and
Voth Schrag, 2020) The domestic abuse is the most common thought as of violence among
partners which can take a shape of various other forms.
There has been a various set of approaches in the development of these policy, legal and
social works in Europe. This guide sets out the overlaps among domestic abuse and
safeguarding legal frameworks in order to safeguard. In order to adult safeguarding and domestic
abuse, there has been a detailed discussion which involves making connections between the
domestic abuse and adult safeguarding which involves various procedures, local policies and
protocols and use of guide to improve overall understanding of issues and developing good
practices( Sanga and McCrary, 2020)
To deal with these situations it is important to have a deep understanding of the impact of
domestic violence which involves various factors that might affect the approach in working,
person at risk considering the impact of abuse on people with support needs and additional care.
For the development of these care it is important to work with people who need support and care
who are a victim of domestic abuse. It involves ensuring and understanding the circumstances
for both the domestic abuse and safeguarding and helping them in proving various ranges of
social work and legal options (Izaguirre and Calvete, 2018).
It also involves ensuring that organisational protocols, policies and procedures about
safeguarding should be explained with bits link to the domestic abuse. It involves ensuring clear
and effective link and arrangements between safeguarding adult boards, children safeguarding
boards and community safety partnerships. In addition to that it involves developing protocols
for support staff at risk of domestic abuse. In context to UK , there are large number of cases of

harassment by abusers at work, in order to deal with these situations there is a requirement of
developing protocol to support a staff who is at risk f domestic abuse. It also involves increasing
awareness regarding such topics in all the relevant sectors of the workforce and providing them
training that covers both the domestic abuse and safeguarding rather than treating them as
separate issues. There are various guideline that have considered in context to domestic abuse
which involves preventing harm and reducing the risk of abuse and neglecting with support
needs and care, methods to stop abuse and neglect wherever possible with safeguarding adults in
a way that it supports them in having control of their lives and making choices( Magnuson and
Schindler, 2019)
For growing recognition for the domestic abuse including the LGBT community
relationships . The cases where women may experience abuse from women and men from men
or experiencing domestic violence from same sex relationship have also increased (Courtain,
and Glowacz, 2021). The organisations identified that there various of abuse experienced by
people in their locality an various parts of the world which involves abuses related to sexuality,
self-neglect, physical, material, sexual, domestic violence, organisational, discriminatory,
modern slavery etc (Abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults, 2021).
CONCLUSION
From the above essay, it can be concluded that Adult safeguarding need to be taken
seriously as it not only protects an adult’s right to be free from abuse and live in safe
environment but it also reduces the risk of abuse and promotes a approach of improving life
of adults from domestic violence. It involves removal of children and support provided to
adults who are exposed to domestic violence with various developments in law, policy and
social care context in England with a detailed summary of developments regarding these
policy, legislation and social care works with a detailed discussion on these developments.
In the end it can be summarized that domestic violence is a crucial issue that need to be
taken seriously as it not only affects the physical body but affects the mental health of a
person. In order to deal with these issues, various policies and measures need to be taken to
safeguard adults.

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