Domestic Abuse
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Additional Resources
For easy-read information about Domestic Abuse please click here. For easy-read information about Coercive and Controlling Behaviour please click here.
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- Making a safety plan, Women’s Aid
- The Survivor’s Handbook, Women’s Aid
- Guidance on economic abuse during COVID-19, Surviving Economic Abuse
- Karma Nirvana
- Chayn
Key Information – Translations – click on links below
(For English version click here)
BSL (British Sign Language) – Short Version here
Mandarin (Simplified Chinese)
Womens Aid have published a number of safety & support resources for people in danger of or suffering from domestic violence during the pandemic (British Sign Language, French, Punjabi, Polish, Bengali, Urdu, Arabic, Gujarati, Chinese (Traditional/Simplified), Spanish, Turkish, Farsi, Kurdish (Sorani), Welsh) – click here to access.
Training/Awareness-raising
To sign up for multi agency training developed by the CPC (in conjunction with their Domestic Abuse Guidance), which is aimed at raising awareness of domestic abuse and child protection among front line workers working with children and young people, please click here.
To access Guidance aimed at staff working in front-line services, please click here.