Through AMDO’s ongoing collaboration with Defra, the protocol contributes to the government’s commitment to tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG).
Organisations involved include The Links Group, Refuge4Pets, Dogs Trust Freedom Project, Cats Protection Lifeline, Endeavour Project and others including AMDO member databases.
The protocol includes a process and declaration to deal with locking and transferring microchip registrations as well as protecting the personal details of victim-survivors.
The protocol is not intended to replace any existing agreed processes between organisations and databases that are already fit for purpose but to provide a resource where experience or protocols are not already in place for dealing with such cases.
AMDO is considering how to make the declaration an online form that can be submitted directly to designated contacts at databases subject to stringent data security.
For more information https://www.amdo.org.uk/domestic-abuse-and-animal-microchipping/
