Agency sets out policy on domestic violence

IN RESPONSE to your report on the domestic violence code (December 3), I would like to clarify that the South East Domestic Violence Intervention Programme is not funded by the Community Development Programme, but by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform through the new government office, Cosc.

We would like to highlight the fact that while we work with male perpetrators of domestic violence, we also work with their female partners or ex-partners and within the context of a multi-agency response.

The impression may have been given that we do not consider domestic violence to be a gender issue.