The Day To Count

Description

Papers relating to the 2000 Metropolitan Police awareness campaign 'The Day to Count', contributed to by Women's Aid. Documents include; Women's Aid correspondence and documents regarding 'The Day to Count'; Women's Aid count sheets for 'The Day to Count'; the report 'The Day to Count: A Snapshot of the Impact of Domestic Violence in the UK' by Professor Elizabeth Stanko, 2000; and the Guardian newspaper article 'The men who turn home into hell', 3 October 2000, publicising the resulting international conference 'Enough is Enough', held 29-30 October 2000.

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Metropolitan Police awareness campaign, contributed to by Women's Aid, in which all domestic violence-related contact was counted by police services throughout the UK on Thursday 28 September 2000: 'The Day to Count'. The count was coordinated and report written by Professor Elizabeth Stanko, Director of the Economic and Social Research Council's Programme on Violence at Royal Holloway, University of London. An in-depth analysis of the findings was presented at the 'Enough is Enough' International Conference on Domestic Violence, hosted in London by the Metropolitan Police on 29-30 October 2000.

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