Fleeing your home due to domestic abuse

Call 999 if a crime is happening now or if you're in immediate danger.

Domestic abuse can include, but is not limited to:

• Coercive control (a pattern of intimidation, degradation, isolation and control with the use or threat of physical or sexual violence)
• Psychological and/or emotional abuse
• Physical or sexual abuse
• Financial or economic abuse
• Harassment and stalking
• Online or digital abuse

If you need to leave your home

• Contact us now calling 01274 435999, if you need to leave your home because of threats of abuse or violence. We will work with local support agencies to give you advice about finding somewhere to live and explore emergency accommodation options.

In all cases involving violence, your safety will be our main consideration in deciding next steps.

• If you need to leave your home, remember to take essentials with you such as a change of clothes, toiletries and any medication you need to take regularly. Also, try to bring important items such as your passport, bank and credit cards and mobile phone.
• If you are homeless and have nowhere safe to stay tonight, please call us on 01274 435999
• Our phone lines are open
• 8.30am to 5pm, Monday to Thursday (excluding public holidays).
• 8.30am to 4.30pm, Friday
• If you are ringing outside these hours please call our out of hours emergency number on 01274 381999

Alternatively you can visit one of the following offices:

Housing Options Service (use the entrance on the corner of Bridge Street and Broadway)
Britannia House
Hall Ings
Bradford
BD1 1HX

Or
Keighley Town Hall
Bow Street
Keighley
BD21 3PB

Charities that can help

• Staying Put provides practical and emotional support for people who experience domestic abuse or sexual violence in the Bradford district
• Bradford District domestic abuse and sexual violence information
• Bradford Survive and Thrive