Domestic abuse - how we can help

The Gateshead Housing Company adopted the definition agreed by the Domestic Violence Partnership in Gateshead and Gateshead Council's Community Safety Strategy, which is:

"Any incident of threatening behaviour or abuse (psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional) between adults who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sexuality."

Typically domestic abuse can involve a systematic pattern of behaviour that can include, but is not limited to:

• Physical assaults 
• Sexual assaults
• Emotional abuse
• Isolation
• Economic abuse
• Threats
• Stalking
• Intimidation.