Survivor Engagement Resources

We are pleased to share a new document which is accessible, and called ‘A Guide to Meaningful Survivor Engagement’.

This was a collaborative guide, to ensure that Survivor voices are still at the front of everything that we do.

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An updated report by the ONS on survivors of Domestic abuse and statistics was released at the end of November 2023.

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Read the Survivor Engagement Good Practice Toolkit released by SEEdS.

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A new report by the World Health Organisation shows women are significantly treated unfairly by employers and paid less.

The report highlights that employers need to do more to promote flexible working for women, and provide support to mitigate against violence and domestic abuse during emergencies like the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report.

The report, ‘The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women, Employment and Health Inequalities’, highlights:

• How existing inequalities facing women worsened and affected their working lives during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Opportunities for employers and government to take action to improve women’s health and wellbeing, including addressing working conditions, unequal loss of income, and support for domestic abuse and coercive control.
• A survey conducted by the TUC found that half of flexible working requests from working mothers are denied

To read the report click here.

• The Crime Survey for England and Wales estimated that 2.1 million people aged 16 years and over (1.4 million women and 751,000 men) experienced domestic abuse in the year ending March 2023.
• There was no significant change in the prevalence of domestic abuse experienced in the last year compared with the previous year.
• The police recorded 889,918 domestic abuse-related crimes (excluding Devon and Cornwall) in the year ending March 2023, a similar number to the previous year.
• There were 51,288 domestic abuse-related prosecutions in England and Wales for the year ending March 2023, compared with 53,207 in the year ending March 2022.

For more information and statistics, and to read the full report:

Click here.