About SETDAB

The Southend, Essex and Thurrock Domestic Abuse Board (SETDAB) is made up of representatives from agencies and organisations working to join up and better facilitate Southend, Essex and Thurrock’s vision to work together to enable everyone to live a life free from all forms of domestic abuse. The Board is responsible for designing and implementing the Domestic Abuse Strategy across Southend, Essex and Thurrock. SETDAB provides strategic leadership to address domestic abuse by providing a multi-agency framework, common ethos and co-ordinated approach to innovate, drive change and address domestic abuse.

Following on from the successful work completed during our previous strategies we have published our SETDAB Domestic Abuse Strategy 2025-30.

To develop our Domestic Abuse Strategy for 2025-2030 we undertook a range of activities:
• We reviewed our partners’ Domestic Abuse Needs Assessments;
• We hosted several workshops with our partners to inform the development of our commitments and key activities;
• We held workshops and interviews with people who have lived experience of domestic abuse to seek their voices and involvement in shaping our priorities and actions;
• Finally we undertook an open consultation on our draft strategy over the summer of 2025.

The Strategy identifies 4 commitments:
1. We will improve our multi-agency systems and process that underpin partners’ response to domestic abuse.
2. We will work with our local communities to understand their needs to ensure that they receive the support they need, when and where they need it.
3. We will work together to promote healthy relationships by ensuring children and adults can access information and guidance at the earliest opportunity.
4. We will all work together to ensure we fulfil our duties as set out in the Domestic Abuse Act (2021) Statutory Guidance.

The aim of our Strategy is to ensure consistent and coordinated action, bringing our collective resources together to address the issues of domestic abuse. The Domestic Abuse Board monitors the implementation and delivery of the Strategy.

SETDAB Domestic Abuse Strategy 2025-2030

SETDAB Annual Report 2024/2025

Other SET Domestic Abuse Strategies

Previous Strategy and Related Documents

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