Strategy and policy
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Our vision and strategy
Our vision is for Birmingham to be a place where:
- domestic abuse is not tolerated
- everyone can expect equality and respect in their relationships
- everyone can live free from domestic abuse
Our 6 strategy priorities are:
- Whole systems approach
- make domestic abuse everybody’s business, with all partners working collectively and collaboratively as a network to respond to and prevent somestic abuse
- Prevention by changing attitudes and behaviours
- promote culture change through raising awareness with the aim of challenging attitudes that foster and perpetuate somestic abuse
- Prevention by early identification and help
- strengthen confidence and responses from all professionals to prevent escalation of risk and harm, and provide tailored support to survivors earlier
- Children and young people are protected
- raise awareness and understanding of healthy relationships
- identify, support, and where necessary, safeguard children and young people impacted by domestic abuse
- Safety, support and recovery
- keep survivors and their children safe
- commission quality assured support to survivors in safe accommodation
- develop a longer term and holistic offer to aid recovery
- Hold perpetrators to account
- develop an intervention pathway that sets out a range of actions that holds perpetrators to account at every opportunity across the system, whilst ensuring that survivors are protected from harm
Download the Birmingham Domestic Abuse Prevention Strategy 2024+
A live action plan is being tracked to ensure we jointly deliver this strategy by 2030.
You can also read our which informed our strategic work since 2021 and the 2024+ strategy.
Page last updated: 8 December 2025