What is a Coordinated Community Response (CCR)

What is a CCR?

A CCR brings services together to ensure local systems truly keep survivors safe, hold abusers to account and prevent domestic abuse. 

Standing Together has pioneered the CCR in the UK for over 20 years. Our roots are in the CCR and we know that true change in the response to violence against women and domestic abuse can only be achieved when all the relevant agencies work effectively together. We aim to stop survivors from falling through gaps by improving responses within and between voluntary and statutory organisations, and ultimately to eradicate domestic abuse.

Domestic abuse is a complex social problem that impacts people, communities and services across our society, spanning health, housing, social care, the Criminal Justice System and beyond. Agencies and organisations are often responding to one aspect of the issue and/or the same problem from different angles. These same agencies also have their own, sometimes conflicting processes, responsibilities, and measures of success. Survivors and their children are often caught within these structures, unclear of how to navigate services to get the help they need. They may receive conflicting messages and end up being blamed for the abuse perpetrated against them. The CCR enables a whole system response to a whole person. It shifts responsibility for safety away from individual survivors to the community and services existing to support them. Every agency that has a responsibility for dealing with survivors, their children and/or perpetrators, must work effectively within their agency and with all other agencies who also have that responsibility, to secure the safety of the survivor and their children and hold perpetrators to account. The process by which this work is integrated and managed is known as the CCR.

For an in-depth look at the CCR read our Report - In Search of Excellence: A refreshed guide to effective domestic abuse partnership work