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Non-Executive Directors: Allan Aubeelack and Rachel Horman

It has been a very busy year here at Paladin. Paladin has

supported over 700 victims as well as delivering pioneering

university accredited ISAC training, raising awareness of

the risk and dangers of stalking, scrutinising the legislation

and lobbying and campaigning. Please enjoy our Christmas

special newsletter highlighting what we have been doing

this year.

Thank you for your continued support and from all at

Paladin we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a

Happy New Year !

The Domestic Violence Law Reform Campaign is celebrating a significant breakthrough, as the Government announced a new domestic violence law criminalising patterns of coercive, controlling and psychological abuse . This will close a criminalisation gap and ensure all forms of abuse can be prosecuted.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Paladin

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The Campaign by Women’s Aid, the Sara Charlton Charitable Foundation, and Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service, has been calling for this change, to better protect women who experience domestic violence.

Laura Richards, Chief Executive of Paladin said:

"It is important that our laws reflect the reality of domestic violence. It is about power and control and the psychological impact is significant. Too many have had their lives ruined and many women have been murdered. Victims’ voices have been at the heart of our campaign and we are delighted that the Government has listened and that domestic violence will become a crime. This will send a clear signal that domestic violence must be taken seriously”

Polly Neate, Chief Executive of Women’s Aid

said:

“We welcome the Home Secretary’s announcement that the Government will criminalise the patterns of coercive, controlling, and psychologically abusive behaviour which lie at the heart of domestic violence. We hope the new law will signal that a culture change is needed in responding to the abuse so many women experience. We look forward to working together with the Home Office to ensure the new law is effective as it can be, and that the police and criminal justice system are able to receive specialist-led domestic violence training so that they are able to fully utilise the new legislation.

Rhea Gargour, and Antonia Packard for the Sara

Charlton Charitable Foundation said:

"We are thrilled that our campaign has been successful and that finally victims of domestic violence have a real chance to be properly protected by our legal system. We hope that this will lead to effective training of the police and a culture change where domestic violence is recognised as an unacceptable crime. We thank the Home Secretary and the Government for their commitment to helping victims of domestic violence and their children."

DV Law Reform

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Non-Executive Directors: Allan Aubeelack and Rachel Horman

We continue to campaign for a register on serial talking and DV perpetrators. We are calling on the Home Secretary, Theresa May, to act now to save lives by protecting women from serial stalkers and domestic violence perpetrators by introducing a register which would enable police to pro-actively identify, track, monitor and manage stalkers. Currently there is no existing framework which can track or monitor serial stalkers and domestic violence perpetrators. There needs to be a positive obligation on perpetrators to change their behaviour and take responsibility. They are the ones who need to be tracked, supervised and managed and not the victim.

Serial Perpetrators Campaign

Isac Training

As you may recall from our last newsletter, we developed an accredited Independent Stalking Advocacy Caseworkers (ISACs) training course through the University of Brighton and have already run the first course in London. This finished in November 2014 and was a great success whereby 12 ISACs were trained. This training has enabled Paladin to establish a network of ISACs across the UK as satellites to the national service which will save lives, give victims quality of life and reduce levels of isolation. It is important that there are more ISACs across the UK as their specialist knowledge and advocacy is vital in keeping victims and their children safe. In the long term it will save both lives and money.

Our next course is running in Spring 2015 with dates to follow. You can read more information on our website. To express an interest in this

course, email us at info@paladinservice.co.uk

On November the 13th a joint Paladin and Collyer Bristow seminar tackling online abuse was held. The speakers included victims’ accounts, Paladin CEO Laura Richards, Alison Morgan – prosecutor in stalking case of Stella Creasey, Dr Claire Hardaker on her research paper on ‘Online Threats and Misogyny’. Nadine Dorries and Betsy de Thierry also spoke about their experiences of stalking .

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Paladin continues to be present at various key events and campaigns across the UK to raise awareness of the advocacy service. On November the 25th Laura gave a keynote address at a conference in Enfield as part of the White Ribbon Campaign on White Ribbon day. White

ribbon day is inspired by the White Ribbon Pledge lead by men who campaign to stop domestic violence against women. Later in the afternoon our CEO Laura Richards also attended an event with Safenet AGM in Burnley. The day raised awareness of DV and stalking and Paladin were proud to take part.

White Ribbon Campaign

Joint event with Collyer Bristow

Behind Closed Doors

Paladin were delighted to host the, ‘Behind Closed Doors,’ event in partnership with City of London Police and Victim support on November the 28th. Speakers included our Ambassadors John and Penny Clough who's daughter Jane was murdered by her ex-partner at her place of work. Fiona Bowman also spoke passionately about her own experiences as a victim of domestic abuse and the difference her employers made . The event was aimed at highlighting to employers their duty of care as an employer in relation to domestic abuse and stalking, It is important employers have policies in place to safe guard their employees who are being stalked or experiencing domestic violence. It was great to see so many people at the event wanting to take more responsibilities for their employees in this matter.

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Non-Executive Directors: Allan Aubeelack and Rachel Horman

Rachel Horman who is one of the Board members of Paladin, won the Family Lawyer of the Year Award 2014. Huge Congratulations !

Images courtesy of twitter

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Paladin were finalists at the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, Personal Safety Awards. We were delighted to be selected as finalists amongst such great nominees.

The winners for the Taking Stalking seriously award went to Southall Police.

The event was fantastic and it was great to network with other nominees in this sector.

College of Policing Awards

Marie Claire Awards

Family Law Awards

Taking Stalking Seriously Awards

In October at the College of

Policing Awards in Paladin

sponsored two awards The

winners were David

Thomason from Cheshire

Police and Sharon from the

College of Policing.

David Thomason was

awarded for his

outstanding partnership

work keeping victims of

stalking and Sharon

Stratton for her

outstanding dedication

and commitment to homicide prevention. The day

was opened by DCI Steve Jackson, National DA Co

-ordinator and Laura Richards CEO gave a speech.

It was an inspiring day with many individuals

receiving recognition for outstanding work on

domestic violence and stalking.

This year Paladin’s CEO was voted 1 of the 10 best women in business at the Marie Claire Awards.

Marie Claire combed the country to find the most in-spirational innovators and game-changers to honour in

Marie Claire's Women At The Top Awards. From busi-ness to the arts, tech to politics,.

Laura founded Paladin ser-vice in 2013, after success-fully campaigning to change the law to include two new stalking offences. During her decade working on violent crime at New Scotland Yard. Laura set up the UK's first Homicide Prevention Unit and trained with the FBI. She still works closely with the Home Office on domes-tic homicide reviews and has helped solve high-profile crimes. This is a great achievement for Paladin and Laura Richards. Well done Laura !

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Support Our Work

Paladin is a not-for-profit CIC dedicated to

supporting victims of stalking and harassment and

campaigning to close gaps for a better deal for

victims.

Five reasons WHY you should support

Paladin:

We will give a voice to high risk victims by offering

support and advice, ensuring there is a

coordinated community response and offer

expertise on risk and management.

We will campaign for a better deal for stalking

victims by extrapolating from casework

experiences.

We will publish research briefings for the public,

parliament and the media.

We will scrutinise the new stalking law to ensure it

is implemented consistently and properly.

We will support test case advocacy aimed at

changing law and practice through the courts.

If you support our work we will:

Offer a 25% discount on stalking training.

Send to you all Parliamentary and media briefings

produced by Paladin electronically.

Continue to send you six weekly briefings

detailing our priorities and achievements.

To donate please complete our form and

send it to Paladin, PO Box 64640, London

SW8 9DJ

Paladin is an advocacy service for high risk victims.

We would like to be in a position to help everyone but we do not have the resources. If we are unable to help we will refer you to local services and/or the National Stalking Helpline.

If you need to refer a case to Paladin or need advice, please visit our website for more information here.

We have developed leaflets for Police, other agencies and victims that are available on our website.

Referring to Paladin

Email: info@paladinservice.co.uk

Telephone: 0207 840 8960

Address: P.O. Box 64640, London, SW8 9DJ

Twitter: @paladinservice

Website: http://www.paladinservice.co.uk

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Bespoke Training

Paladin also offer bespoke training for agencies:

A) Introducing awareness training on dynamics of stalking, new law and risk.

B) Cyber and digital stalking

C) Offender Typologies

To book one of our training, contact us.

Training Opportunities

Contacting Paladin

Want to work for Paladin?

We are currently accepting applications for the following roles : -

3 Posts for Independent Stalking Advocacy Caseworkers.

If you would like to apply for this role, please send an email to info@paladinservice.co.uk with the following:

Complete our application form which can be viewed

on our website here

Closing Date: 12th January 2015