Safe Back issues

Issue 42 - Summer 2012

• Key findings report on BMER women's and children's experiences of gender-based violence
• Women's Aid Conference 2012
• Shared parenting and safety concerns; why we need an option five
• Helping Hands and You & Me Mum training programmes
• Forced marriage stand-alone law: will it work?
• Book Review: Violente Fathering and the Risks to Children: The Need to Change
• Sex-selective termination; gender-based violence and not abortion at the heart of the matter

Issue 41 - Spring 2012

• A contemporary view challenging the legalisation of prostitution
• The continuing links between homelessness and domestic violence
• The impact of cuts on the provision of services to prevent VAWG
• Isolation, prejudice and missed opportunities; middle eastern women and domestic violence
• Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences; a review in Birmingham

Issue 40 - Winter 2012
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• Domestic violence advocacy and support in a changing climate: findings from three recent  evaluations
• Ending harmful practices: an effective approach to preventing female genital mutilation
• IRIS: from research trial to commissioning services
• “You know a Jewish woman experiencing domestic abuse”
• The value of legal aid: listening to women and the cost of cutting back 
  

Issue 39 - Autumn 2011
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• Rural isolation and violence against women: a European transnational analysis
• Money advice for survivors of domestic violence: an initial analysis of the DAME project
• Improving engagement between MARACs and the drug and alcohol sector
• The case against reforming legal aid
• Child maintenance: financial support for victims of domestic abuse

Issue 38 - Summer 2011
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• The future of feminism
• Use it before we lose it: how can the violence against women sector use the Human Rights Act in these challenging times?
• Unravelling equality - a human rights and equality impact assessment of public spending cuts on women in Coventry
• Safety for victims of domestic violence with an insecure immigration status: one step forward two steps back? 
• Finding a voice: how family and friends help the victim to be heard in Domestic Homicide Reviews

Issue 37 - Spring 2011
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• Eighteen dead, how many more? Violence and mental health amongst BME women
• Celebrating 100 years of International Women’s Day
• Benefits of identifying need as well as risk for victim/survivors of domestic violence
• Haiti: surge in rape and sexual violence after the earthquake
• Women’s support workers views on domestic violence perpetrator programmes

Issue 36 - Winter 2011
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• Women, access to justice and tea at the Ritz
• Putting survivors back at the heart of the violence against women and girls movement
• Respect multi-site research into perpetrator programme outcomes: what counts as success?
• Making sense of why so few LGBT victim/survivors are referred to MARACs: a regional perspective

Issue 35 - Autumn 2010
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• Girls, gangs and serious youth violence: closing the chasm
• The impact of domestic abuse on the lives and health of older women
• Diverting women away from crime: a radically different approach
• The extent of sexual violence related data in Wolverhampton
• Communicating the message: the value of working together

Issue 34 - Summer 2010
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• The Crown Prosecution Service: steps to improve violence against women prosecutions
• Specialist domestic violence services: a need to change?
• Women’s Aid Annual Survey 2009
• Respect Phoneline publishes booklet for male perpetrators of domestic violence
• Licensed to sell: pornography as art

Issue 33 - Spring 2010
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• Forced Marriage Legislation and Policy in the UK: Taking Stock
• The Undeclared War: Women and Girls Speak Out
• Special report: women, politics and the General Election 2010
• Standing-up Against Violence Against Women
• Visibility, Responsibility and Identity in Domestic Murder-Suicide
   

Issue 32 - Winter 2010
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• Update: violence against women and the law
• Crossing the divide: connecting survivors of domestic violence through the internet
• ‘Herding cats’: the experiences of domestic violence advocates engaging with primary care providers
• The Gender Equality Duty and violence against women and girls
• Bridging to Change: Relate’s Domestic Violence and Abuse Responsive Model

Issue 31 - Autumn 2009
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• New standards for the domestic and sexual violence sector
• Addressing The ‘Cultural Silence’ Of Rape In UK South Asian Communities
• The Respect toolkit for work with male victims of domestic violence
• Barriers to help for Gypsy and Traveller women living with domestic violence

Issue 30 - Summer 2009
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• Who Does What to Whom? Gender and domestic violence perpetrators
• Why are fewer victims of domestic abuse seeking non-molestation orders?
• Keeping Children Safe: Child Contact
• Female Genital Mutilation: Realities and Rights for Women and Girls in the UK
• The Embrace Project: Helping Alcohol Services to Address Domestic Violence

Issue 29 - Spring 2009
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• Effective responses to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans (LGBT) people experiencing domestic abuse
• Spotlight
• Crown Prosecution Service Violence against Women strategy and action
• From Local to Global and Back Again – Fighting for Substantive Equality
• Homicide Reviews – making them count
• Changing young hearts and minds: Women’s Aid Expect Respect Education Toolkit

Issue 28 - Winter 2009
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• 1st World  Conference of Women’s Shelters
• Spotlight
• Good practice checklist for interpreters
• Evaluation of advocacy services for domestic abuse survivors
• Dad’s Space
• “A BMER specialist refuge roof over my head”

Issue 27 - Autumn 2008
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• Making the links: disabled women and domestic violence
• Spotlight
• 'If only we'd known': an exploratory study of seven intimate partner homicides
• Expect Respect Education Toolkit
• Research into long term outcomes of perpetrator programmes
• Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry: Government responds
• Living with Risk – an investigation into the ability of the Specialist Domestic Violence Court to keep women safe

Issue 26 - Summer 2008
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• Domestic violence in adolescent relationships
• Spotlight
• Findings and Views on the Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry
• Domestic violence and faith
• MPS “could have done more” to prevent the murder of Banaz Mahmod

Issue 25 - Spring 2008
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• Women's experiencing of mothering in the context of domestic violence
• Reality and impact of DVCVA Act 2004
• Book Review: Child Protection, Domestic Violence and Parental Substance Misuse
• Report on Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry on domestic violence
• MARACS - strengths and limitations of the process
• Book Review - Supporting women after domestic violence - loss, trauma and recovery
• Research - support after abuse

Issue 24 - Winter 2007
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• Celebrating 25 years of activism as an MP
• Spotlight
• Risky Judgments? Understanding how practitioners and victims conceputalise ‘risk’
• Support for children and young people experiencing domestic violence
• Stop violence in the home - The Body Shop campaign
• The hidden costs of David and Anna’s untold story

Issue 23 - Autumn 2007
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• Will the Women's Sector be mainstreamed out of existence?
• Key agency update
• Thirty years of domestic violence legislation: Is it worth the paper now?
• Empowering the voluntary sector - an advice and training project for voluntary organistions
• Report: Women’s Aid conference 2007
• Working together to safeguard children and young people from domestic violence

Issue 22 - Summer 2007
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• What do men want?
• Key agency update – CAADA
• Technology and the risks to personal safety
• Disabled Women and Domestic Violence: Making the Links
• Tackling domestic abuse
• BME Women’s struggles against forced marriage and honour based violence

• Invisible women
• Relate - Bridging to Safety
• Reality and optimism in the health sector
• Risk Assessment and the importance of victim intuition
• Male Victims and National Standards for Domestic and Sexual Violence

Issue 20 Winter 2007
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• Crown Prosecution Service leads the way
• Influencing the safeguarding & risk agendas
• The Gender Duty - what difference will it make?
• Domestic violence – not just an adult affair
• The Home Office - your questions answered

Issue 19 Autumn 2006
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• Violence against women, a human rights issue
• Good intentions - disabliing realities
• Female prisoners - offenders or victims
• An exploration of domestic violence service provision
• Talking to my Mum

Issue 18 Sumer 2006
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• National domestic violence service standards for all
• Working with survivors with drug or alcohol problems
• Refuges in Mexico
• Violence against Women Research Group
• The use of sanctuary schemes

• Changing attitudes within dental healthcare
• Risk assessment in the family courts
• Young people's attitudes towards gendered violence

• Internet technology - how safe is it?
• Domestic violence and substance misuse
• Turkey rises to the challenge of tackling domestic violence

• Campaign to End Violence Against Women
• No access to justice: gender, violence and immigration law
• Broken Rainbow paves the way forward for LGBT survivors

• Strengthening support for victims of stalking
• Interviewer training - a sound investment
• Keeping silent: older women and domestic violence

• Changes in the Family Justice System 
• What about me? A pioneering approach to children's group work
• WOMANKIND's prevention and education work

• 30 years of working to stop domestic violence
• Against my will
• Psychological violence in intimate relationships

• "Worth it in the end": A new look at support in refuges
• Struggling to survive
• The real cost of domestic violence

• Focusing on the problem: Perpetrator work in the UK
• Five times higher - the extent of domestic violence
• Children demand of the government - "Don't ignore us"

• Provocation: A plea for life?
• Presenting the evidence
• Violent fathers - 'good enough' parents?

• Do these children matter?
• Hostages to the Hague Convention?
• New York's successful integrated courts

• Y Profiad Cymreig - the Welsh Experience
• Missing Out on Education: Children speak out
• Is Anyone Listening? Voices and views of survivors

• Safety and Justice: The challenge ahead
• Once were Warriors: Colonisation and Maori family violence
• Bound by the law?

• Child contact and domestic violence: How safe is it?
• Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
• Helping Hands heals hearts

• Prevention is better than cure - the role of schools
• Workplace policies on domestic violence
• The Rt. Hon. Harriet Harman QC - an interview with the Solicitor General

• UNIFEM reports on International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women
• Criiminal justice responses to domestic violence - UK and Australian perspectives
• Russian/UK partnership initiatives

• Crime Reduction Partnership initiatives
• Screening within the health service
• New immigration proposal may prolong abuse

• Metropolitan police initiatives
• Supporting People - the challenge ahead
• Child contact orders and safety

• Pan London domestic violence strategy
• Recent research on lethal violence
• Update on government action