I raise this after an exchange of emails with MN HQ and after checking the list of issues raised in this topic list.
Posters may or may not be aware of the significant rise in the experience of DV at the times of football tournaments, and most specifically the World Cup.
Anyone googling this issue will read some startling statistics, and would appreciate that as the tournament draws near this is a heighten time of risk to women. In the borough where I work the highest ever reporting time of DV was when England played Paraguay last time ( and won).
I don't wish to killjoy a fabulous event, but the darker side of it should not be ignored.
Nationally, DV incidents reported 'spike' at these times, and we can speculate why.
I do have a professional ( and personal) interest in this, and am keen to promote an awareness of this danger. I do have responsibilities in a public organisation for Domestic Violence, as well as Children and Families, and have noticed a lack of promotion of this danger which can be so easily predicted.
So I am inviting a discussion and pointers for how people, both perptrators and potential victims can do what they can to avoid this nasty experience. MN do not ahve a current DV campaign, though the strength of opinion from posters may change this.
Anyone?