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Specialist Domestic Violence Courts

The Specialist Domestic Violence Court (SDVC) programme has been running since 2005 and there are now 127 courts, across the country. This is just one short of the Government target of 128, by 2011. Local Criminal Justice Boards (LCJBs) will have responsibility for the governance and perfomance management aspects of SDVCs from the 1st April 2010.

This list dated 29th November 2012 shows at a glance what courts fall within each LCJB area and will help identify, which courts have received official accreditation. This list is replicated on the Home Office website and the Ministry of Justice website as it is a tri-partite team.

Avon and Somerset Local Criminal Justice Board

There are six Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Avon and Somerset Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Bath SDVC
  • Bristol SDVC
  • North Avon SDVC
  • North Somerset SDVC
  • Sedgemoor SDVC
  • South Somerset SDVC

Bedfordshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are two Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Bedfordshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Bedford SDVC
  • Luton SDVC

Cambridgeshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There is one Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Cambridgeshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Peterborough SDVC

Cheshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are three Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Cheshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Chester SDVC
  • Crewe SDVC
  • Halton SDVC
  • Warrington SDVC

Cleveland Local Criminal Justice Board

There is one Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Cleveland Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Teeside SDVC

Cumbria Local Criminal Justice Board

There are three Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Cumbria Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Carlisle SDVC
  • South Cumbria SDVC
  • West Cumbria SDVC

Derbyshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are two Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Derbyshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Derby SDVC
  • NE Derbyshire and Dales SDVC

Devon and Cornwall Local Criminal Justice Board

There are four Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Devon and Cornwall Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Barnstaple SDVC
  • Bodmin and Truro SDVC
  • Exeter SDVC
  • Plymouth SDVC
  • South Devon (Torbay) SDVC

Dorset Local Criminal Justice Board

There are two Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Dorset Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • East Dorset SDVC
  • West Dorset SDVC

Durham and Darlington Local Criminal Justice Board

There is one Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Durham and Darlington Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Durham SDVC

Dyfed-Powys Local Criminal Justice Board

There is one Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Dyfed-Powys Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Pembrokeshire SDVC
  • Llanelli SDVC

Essex Local Criminal Justice Board

There is one Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Essex Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Essex SDVC

Gloucestershire Local Criminal Justice Board

There is one Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Gloucestershire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Cheltenham SDVC

Greater Manchester Local Criminal Justice Board

There are six Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Greater Manchester Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Bolton SDVC
  • Bury SDVC (now includes Rochdale cases)
  • Manchester SDVC (now includes Salford)
  • Oldham SDVC
  • Stockport SDVC
  • Tameside SDVC
  • Trafford SDVC
  • Wigan SDVC

Gwent Local Criminal Justice Board

There are two Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Gwent Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Gwent (Caerphilly) SDVC
  • Gwent (Newport) SDVC
  • Gwent (Blackwood) SDVC
  • Gwent (Cwmbran) SDVC
  • Gwent (Torfaen) SDVC

Hampshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are four Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Hampshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • North East Hampshire SDVC
  • Southampton SDVC
  • North West Hampshire SDVC
  • Portsmouth SDVC

Hertfordshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are three Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Hertfordshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • North and East Hertfordshire SDVC
  • St Albans SDVC (now includes Hemel Hempstead cases)

Humberside Local Criminal Justice Board

There are two Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Humberside Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • East Riding SDVC
  • Hull SDVC

Kent Local Criminal Justice Board

There is one Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Kent Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Kent (Maidstone) SDVC

Lancashire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are six Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Lancashire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Blackburn, Darwen, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley SDVC
  • Blackpool and Fylde SDVC
  • Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale SDVC
  • Fleetwood SDVC
  • Lancaster SDVC
  • Ormskirk West Lancs SDVC
  • Preston SDVC
  • South Ribble, Chorley and West Lancs SDVC

Leicestershire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are two Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Leicestershire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Leicester City SDVC
  • Loughborough SDVC

Lincolnshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are two Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Lincolnshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Lincolnshire SDVC

London Local Criminal Justice Board

There are six Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the London Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Barnet SDVC
  • Brent SDVC
  • Croydon SDVC
  • Ealing SDVC (includes Acton)
  • West London SDVC
  • Haringey SDVC
  • Hillingdon SDVC
  • Hounslow SDVC
  • Stratford SDVC
  • Thames (Tower Hamlets/Hackney) SDVC

Merseyside Local Criminal Justice Board

There are five Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Merseyside Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Knowsley SDVC
  • Liverpool SDVc
  • Sefton SDVC
  • St Helens SDVC
  • Wirral SDVC

Norfolk Local Criminal Justice Board

There is one Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Norfolk Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Norwich SDVC

Northamptonshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There is one Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Northamptonshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Northants SDVC

Northumbria Local Criminal Justice Board

There are four Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Northumbria Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Gateshead SDVC
  • Hartlepool SDVC
  • Sunderland SDVC
  • Newcastle upon Tyne SDVC
  • North Tyneside SDVC
  • South East Northumberland SDVC
  • South Tyneside SDVC

North Wales Local Criminal Justice Board

There are two Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the North Wales Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Flintshire SDVC
  • Wrexham SDVC

North Yorkshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are two Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the North Yorkshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Scarborough and Ryedale SDVC
  • York and Selby SDVC

Nottinghamshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are two Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Nottinghamshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Mansfield SDVC
  • Nottingham SDVC

South Wales Local Criminal Justice Board

There are six Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the South Wales Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Bridgend SDVC
  • Cardiff SDVC
  • Merthyr Tydfil SDVC
  • Neath Port Talbot SDVC
  • Pontypridd SDVC
  • Swansea SDVC

South Yorkshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are four Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the South Yorkshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Barnsley SDVC
  • Doncaster SDVC
  • Rotherham SDVC
  • Sheffield SDVC

Staffordshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are three Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Staffordshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Cannock and Stafford SDVC
  • North Staffordshire SDVC
  • South East Staffordshire SDVC

Suffolk Local Criminal Justice Board

There are three Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Suffolk Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Ipswich SDVC
  • Bury St Edmunds SDVC
  • Lowestoft SDVC

Sussex Local Criminal Justice Board

There are three Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Sussex Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • East Sussex SDVC
  • Sussex central SDVC (Brighton; Hove and some Lewes cases)
  • West Sussex SDVC

Thames Valley Local Criminal Justice Board

There are four Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Thames Valley Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Berkshire-Reading, Maidenhead, Newbury SDVC
  • Buckinghamshire SDVC
  • Milton Keynes SDVC
  • North Oxford SDVC
  • Oxford SDVC

Warwickshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There is one Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Warwickshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Warwickshire SDVC

West Mercia Local Criminal Justice Board

There are six Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the West Mercia Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Herefordshire SDVC
  • Kidderminster SDVC
  • Shropshire and Shropshire North SDVC
  • South Worcestershire SDVC
  • Telford and South Shropshire SDVC
  • Worcestershire (Bromsgrove and Redditch) SDVC

West Midlands Local Criminal Justice Board

There are eight Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the West Midlands Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Birmingham SDVC
  • Coventry SDVC
  • Dudley SDVC
  • Sandwell SDVC
  • Solihull SDVC
  • Walsall SDVC
  • Wolverhampton SDVC

West Yorkshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are five Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the West Yorkshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Bradford SDVC
  • Calderdale SDVC
  • Kirklees SDVC
  • Leeds SDVC
  • Wakefield SDVC

Wiltshire Local Criminal Justice Board

There are two Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the Wiltshire Local Criminal Justice Board:

  • Salisbury SDVC
  • Wiltshire Chippenham SDVC
  • Wiltshire Swindon SDVC

Local Criminal Justice Boards without Specialist Domestic Violence Courts

There are no Specialist Domestic Violence Courts within the following Local Criminal Justice Boards:

  • Surrey Local Criminal Justice Board