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<p>Discussions are ongoing between the Home Office, Ministry of Justice and the Department
of Justice in relation to the application of the landmark Domestic Abuse Bill to Northern
Ireland. Details will be announced in due course.</p><p>The Department of Justice
in Northern Ireland is progressing a range of work in relation to on pre-existing
policy decisions on domestic violence and abuse, in conjunction with its statutory,
voluntary and community sector partners. including a domestic abuse offence; domestic
homicide reviews, a domestic violence and abuse disclosure scheme; a streamlined advocacy
support service; behavioural change programmes for those demonstrating concerning
behaviours and an advertising campaign to raise awareness of domestic abuse and the
availability of the disclosure scheme. These key policy areas were set out in the
seven year ‘Stopping Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse’ strategy published by
Northern Ireland Ministers in 2016.</p><p>These are from the following documents:
<a href="https://www.justice-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/doj/stopping-domestic-sexual-violence-ni.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.justice-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/doj/stopping-domestic-sexual-violence-ni.pdf</a>
and <a href="https://www.justice-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/justice/Year%204%20draft%20Action%20Plan%20Stopping%20Domestic%20and%20Sexual%20Violence%20and%20Abuse%20Strategy.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.justice-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/justice/Year%204%20draft%20Action%20Plan%20Stopping%20Domestic%20and%20Sexual%20Violence%20and%20Abuse%20Strategy.pdf</a></p>
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