…into UK adults’ attitudes to domestic abuse, to better understand where and why domestic abuse is ‘tolerated’ in our society. The survey included scenarios between domestic abuse perpetrators and victims,…
…funding for providing services for survivors of domestic abuse. The local authority had taken a ‘gender-neutral’ approach to commissioning its domestic abuse services, which led to RISE – a women-centred…
…of domestic abuse which recognises children as victims in their own right; A Domestic Abuse Commissioner to stand up for survivors and life-saving domestic abuse services; A legal duty on…
…abuse services to save them from collapse? Under the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, you have a statutory duty to provide safe accommodation-based support for women who have experienced domestic abuse….
How common is domestic abuse? We know from our work, and the work of the Women’s Aid federation of services, that domestic abuse is very common, however this is often…
…experiences of justice and domestic abuse”, we have today launched a social media campaign with the hashtag #FlipTheSexistScript. It is impossible to disentangle women’s experiences of domestic abuse from the…
…Bowstead, J.C. (2015) ‘Why women’s domestic violence refuges are not local services’, Critical Social Policy, Vol. 35(3): 327–349, p. 335 Domestic Abuse Commissioner. (2022) Early Findings from the Domestic Abuse…
…implemented a real-time cut to their domestic abuse funding in 2019/20. Shrinking local authority budgets have resulted in a funding crisis for the domestic abuse sector, leaving refuge services under-resourced…
Why do we say domestic abuse is gendered? Every case of domestic abuse should be taken seriously and each individual given access to the support they need. All victims should…
…domestic abuse. Section 7, Domestic Abuse Act (2021) Under Section 69, the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 requires local authorities to give priority need status to people who are homeless because…
