Consultancy and Bespoke Packages

Why choose Safer Places?

Safer Places knows what works when supporting survivors of domestic and sexual abuse and how to tackle abuse in our communities. We are a local charity, with over 40 years experience of supporting survivors, running accommodation and community services and creating and delivering training and qualifications. All of our services are co-created with the voice of the survivor at the heart of all we do and we take this forward in every aspect of our work. We always aim to have our services independently evaluated, to ensure that they are effective and delivered in line with our values to achieve our mission.

Consultancy

Our consultancy is independent, practical and informed.We offer individually tailored consultancy to local authorities, Police and Crime Commissioners, accommodation providers and businesses who want to improve their response to survivors and increase family’s safety.

Bespoke Training Packages

We respond to individual training needs of organisations and businesses and can develop tailor made training workshops and sessions to suit your requirements. For example we have delivered training to detectives in a number of police forms, delivered perpetrator training for those attempting to break the cycle of abuse and strategic domestic abuse training for commissioners.

All our training is delivered by our expert team who will ensure that you get the most out of your package and walk away with the knowledge and skills to tackle domestic and sexual abuse, relevant to your area of practice.

To discuss this in more detail please get in touch

Latest

DASH training 07/12/2020

DASH – Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour Based Abuse Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model.
DASH training 19/11/2020

DASH – Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour Based Abuse Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model.
DASH training 06/11/2020

DASH – Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour Based Abuse Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model.
Trustee

This is a great volunteering opportunity for an individual committed to working towards a world where everyone lives a life free from abuse and fear, within an organisation that is passionate and focused on bringing about positive and long-lasting change to the lives of adults and children impacted by abuse.

Live Chat Launch

Safer Places launches new Live Chat service. The new service enables anyone experiencing abuse to chat directly with a member of the Safer Places team. The measures announced to tackle coronavirus (COVID 19) have seen day to day life change dramatically and undoubtedly made it harder for people to access support services as survivors are isolated with abusers with small windows of opportunity to speak. This new service will give survivors the opportunity to access support discreetly.
Safer Places response to the Domestic Abuse Bill second reading announcement

The Domestic Abuse Bill will return to Parliament tomorrow, Tuesday 28th April. Janet Dalrymple, CEO of Safer Places said “We are pleased to see the bill progressing through parliament, especially during this particularly worrying time for survivors of abuse"
Family Life in Refuge

Hello there! My name is Lauren Taylor and I work for Safer Places as a Senior Family Domestic Abuse Practitioner (I know, what a mouthful right?). Thankfully when it comes to working with the amazing kids within the refuges I just introduce myself as someone wanting to make them feel as safe and happy as possible, that usually goes down a little better! So I was asked by one of my lovely colleagues to write a blog……and after several days of researching what a blog actually is, here I am.
Ask for J Campaign

Today Safer Places launch the ‘Ask for J’ campaign across Essex. As local businesses begin to re-open their doors to members of the community the ‘Ask for J’ campaign opens the door to support for those experiencing abuse.
Safer Places receives emergency funding to bolster refuge service provision

Safer Places receives £15,000 emergency funding from Essex Community Foundation to bolster refuge service provision
Safer Places response to the second reading of the Domestic Abuse Bill

Safer Places respond to the second reading of the Domestic Abuse Bill. Rachel Millar, Senior Policy Officer for Safer Places said: “Safer Places are pleased to see the Bill progress through parliament, especially during this worrying time when urgent action is needed to protect survivors. We were particularly pleased to hear just how many MP’s spoke with passion and championed the voices of survivors’ and children whist highlighting matters of concern not currently addressed within the Bill.
Safer Places receives emergency COVID 19 funding
Running Refuges - The Risk and Impact of COVID 19

It is almost 6 months now since on March 13th I sat with my colleagues Jayne and Allison and talked about what would happen if this new virus took hold. The death toll in the UK had risen to 11 that day and there had been a surge in infections taking the total infected across the UK to almost 800. We laughed a fair bit – partly because what we were talking about seemed unthinkable and partly because we were nervous.
Domestic Abuse Bill 2020 Part 2

The Domestic Abuse Bill has now passed through the House of Commons stage and is one step closer to becoming law having been introduced to the House of Lords; this is a formality and takes place without any debate. The date for the second hearing, where the bill will be considered, has not yet been announced.
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