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Swindon Paragon Integrated Domestic Abuse Services
Get in touch with our Swindon team
Phone: 0800 917 8565 or 01793 610610
Read about our Swindon team
The Paragon Swindon Domestic Abuse Service is dedicated to providing comprehensive, trauma-informed support to individuals and families affected by domestic abuse. Commissioned by Swindon Borough Council, with support from the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, our team works relentlessly to ensure those impacted by domestic abuse receive the help they deserve.
If you need support for yourself, your children, or help in changing harmful behaviours, we’re here to offer the assistance you need.
How we offer domestic abuse support in Swindon
We offer a range of support services for those affected by domestic abuse in Swindon. Our dedicated team is here to assist at every stage, providing the help you need to move forward.
If you need a safe place to stay at Jenni’s House, our purpose-built refuge, or support in the community, we’re here to help.
Children and Young People’s Domestic Abuse service
Children and young people’s domestic abuse service
We provide tailored accommodation and community support for children and young people impacted by domestic abuse. This includes recovery groups, education, and awareness programs designed to support their healing and understanding.
Whole family work
Our integrated service provides support for the whole family, including those who use harmful behaviours in intimate relationships. We focus on creating safer, healthier environments, helping families build stronger, more positive relationships.
Multi-agency Collaboration
We believe in the power of collaboration and work closely with various partners to best support our community. Our key partners include:
- Stonewater: Provides dispersed housing support for those unable to access refuge.
- Nelson Trust: Offers a refuge for individuals with multiple and/or complex needs.
- First Light: Manages the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC).
- Society Without Abuse (formerly known as Swindon Women’s Aid).
- and other committed partners, all working towards ending domestic abuse in Swindon.
Through this collaboration, we can provide a stronger, more supportive network to help individuals regain safety, stability, and control of their lives.
Download a referral form
If this sounds like something that will help, download a referral form, once it is completed please email ParagonSwindon@theyoutrust.org.uk
Our skilled and experienced Swindon team is available to provide practical and emotional support if you have experienced domestic abuse or are committed to changing harmful behaviours you're using in your own intimate relationships. The following offers an oversight into how we can work with you:
Refuge accommodation and support.
- Specialist support for women and children fleeing domestic abuse
- Purpose-built 22-room building
- Some spaces reserved for those with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)
- Committed to identifying and setting up dispersed safe houses to accommodate men and other people fleeing domestic violence and abuse where traditional refuge is not suitable
Support for victims of all risk levels
- Community-based support across Swindon in-person or online
- We can meet you for a coffee, in your home, or wherever it is that you feel safest
- Trauma-informed support is bespoke to you and your situation, and where other organisations may contribute to your safety, we'll link with them (e.g. Bobby Van Trust, MARAC)
- Access to and support for criminal justice processes
Children
- Under Domestic Abuse Act 2021, children are recognised as victims in their own right
- SPIDAS works with children whose parent/guardian is also being supported
- Where safe, we'll adopt a whole-family approach to support families to stay together
- We work with children who are engaging in child and adolescent to parent violence and abuse (CAPVA) and sibling to sibling abuse
Recovery groups and drop-ins
- Community, virtual, and face-to-face
- Helping to understand trauma and how we respond
- Sharing information and knowledge to better understand and deal with previous experiences
- Representative groups include Adverse Childhood Experiences (for adults), Recovery Tool Kit, Hope to Recovery, and an adapted Adverse Childhood Experiences course for children
- Scheduled drop-ins throughout Swindon at accessible times
Advocacy
- Attending meetings with you
- Speaking with you and on your behalf
- Explaining the impact of violence and abuse to others so they can better understand your response
- Sharing our knowledge about domestic abuse and the impact of trauma
- We can help look at the best ways of keeping you safe and support you with civil or criminal proceedings
Marginalised and isolated communities
- We know that many people living in marginalised and isolated communities are often more reluctant to speak about their experiences due to cultural pressures or fears of reprisal
- Our diverse team have lived and work experiences in many different communities
- This will include BAME, LGBTQ+, GTRSB, elder abuse, those with physical/learning disabilities, forces and other service personnel
Behaviour change programme (perpetrators/people causing harm)
Engage behaviour change programme (for perpetrators/people causing harm)
- One-to-one assessment and support with a specialist team
- Structured group work
- Ongoing support
Partner support
- Ongoing support for the partners of people engaged with the behaviour change programme
- Safety planning
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