CANDDIS - Domestic Abuse Referral Information System

Domestic Abuse is a pattern of behaviour, which is characterised by the exercise of power and control and the misuse of one person by another. Domestic Abuse occurs within close personal or family relationships.

Examples of Domestic Abuse:

	Physical Abuse
	Verbal or Emotional Abuse
	Sexual Abuse
	Destruction of Property or Pets
	Financial Abuse

Monitoring and providing support mechanisms is a positive example of the Local Authority, the Police and Community working together to offer intervention options to the victims of Domestic Abuse. The reasons for Domestic Abuse are wide and varied; the results of Domestic Abuse can be horrific.

	Every minute in the UK, Police receive a call asking for assistance with domestic violence
	The Police receive 1,300 domestic violence call a day - 570,000 each year

For those dealing with the victims of Domestic Abuse, there are obvious benefits for having an effective information system to carefully manage caseloads. The system provides a tool for capturing details of Domestic Abuse when an incident occurs. Many pre-defined reports can be output from the system making data analysis and audit processing incredibly simple. This system helps Domestic Abuse Coordinator's manage their caseloads and monitor repeat victims and repeat offenders more closely.

Features	Benefits
Records Victim, Assailant, and Incident information.	Has the ability to summarise and identify trends and patterns. This allows senior managers to better deploy resources and target policy and strategies with statistical evidence. Sharing information allows the organisation to meet their statutory obligations to produce audits. More easily identify repeat victims and improves your service and intervention options. More easily track persistent offenders. More easily produce evidential background profiles when engaging with clients.
Data is geo-coded during input process.	Outputs de-personalised geographically referenced statistics. De-personalised data allows organisations to share it with their partners, without being affected by current data protection legislation. Information combined with geography allows the statistics to reveal patterns, which might not be as evident from standard analysis e.g. Hot-spots. Analysing data geographically also allows data to be presented against relevant political boundaries. For example; Data by can be aggregated to Administrative Ward; Police Sector; Police Beat Area.
Easy to use windows interface.	Having a windows interface means that Officers can quickly learn to use the intuitive user interface. This reduces the cost of training and on-going support.
Data can be displayed using GIS.	A picture paints a thousand words. Displaying data against a map is an easy way to get clear messages about activity; how there maybe clusters of certain activities in specific areas, and those areas differ significantly to their neighbours.
Produces statistical reports.	Analysis of tabular and charted data reveals statistical patterns. These patterns can be used to prove or disprove anecdotal theories.
Comprehensive pre-defined reporting tools.	Reporting tools are quick and easy to use. Pre-defined reporting tools allow the user to react quickly to the majority of statistical summary requests.
Dynamically produce custom reports.	Dynamically produce custom reports. Custom reports allow the user to build non-standard reports to satisfy local needs.