Spotlight: the podcast for the domestic abuse sector

Dr Justin Varney is the National Lead for Adult Health and Wellbeing at Public Health England. In this blog, he talks about the ways that people living with impairments are affected by domestic abuse, and the ways in which barriers to accessibility further disable individuals seeking help. Visit our Spotlights page for more insight and practical guidance for professionals working with disabled vic...

Our second Spotlight series looks focuses on disabled people experiencing domestic abuse and the services available to them. In this week's podcast Natalie Blagrove talks to Dr Michelle McCarthy, Reader in Learning Disabilities at the University of Kent. Dr McCarthy talks about her research with survivors who have learning diablities and what it revealed about their perpetrators and the barriers t...

Collette Eaton-Harris is a Knowledge Hub Advisor for SafeLives. In this blog she talks to specialist practitioners about how domestic abuse workers can make their services more accessible to people with learning disabilities. She shares 10 tips that focus on making sure the client's needs are being met, and that all applicable risks are being considered. You can read the blog here: http://tinyurl....

Lois Cameron is a director at Talking Mats®. She developed the organisation along with fellow director Joan Murphy and this is a reading of her blog about Talking Mats' successful communication tool which can help identify people with learning disabilities who are also experiencing domestic abuse. You can read the blog here: http://tinyurl.com/nt3o8r9 Through October and November, we'll be focusin...

It's the end of the week, and the service manager at DeafHope is covering the office. There are a couple of crisis calls, and some difficulties with communication and funding. Catch up on blogs from DeafHope, the UK's only specialst domestic abuse service for Deaf women: tinyurl.com/hsxmhw7 For more podcasts, blogs, webinars and guidance on disabled people, see our Spotlights page tinyurl.com/jt38...

Today is a relatively quiet day for the DeafHope Idvas. They meet with survivors from diverse cultural backgrounds to talk about the impact of domestic abuse on children. Catch up on blogs from DeafHope, the UK's only specialst domestic abuse service for Deaf women: http://tinyurl.com/hsxmhw7 For more podcasts, blogs, webinars and guidance on disabled people, see our Spotlights page tinyurl.com/jt...

Day three of our "week in the life" series. In this episode, we see how DeafHope helps their clients to recover from the effects of abuse in the long term. Through October and November, we'll be focusing on the ways disabled people experience domestic abuse and the ways they can seek help. We'll be looking closely at how the system currently works and where it fails.

This week we're sharing the work of DeafHope, the UK's only specialist Deaf Idva service. In today's episode, we'll hear about the challenges faced by Idvas supporting deaf clients in court. Through October and November, we'll be focusing on the ways disabled people experience domestic abuse and the ways they can seek help. We'll be looking closely at how the system currently works and where it fa...

This week DeafHope, the UK's only specialist deaf Idva service, is sharing their work with us. In this first installment, the service manager gives us an insight into some of the unique challenges faced by the team. Through October and November, we'll be focusing on the ways disabled people experience domestic abuse and the ways they can seek help. We'll be looking closely at how the system curren...

Our second Spotlight series looks focuses on disabled people experiencing domestic abuse and the services available to them. In this week's podcast Emma Storey talks to Thien Nguyen Phan, Marac co-ordinator at the charity Standing Together Against Domestic Violence. They discuss how Maracs work, what happens when vital expertise is missing from the table, and how to accurately record data to make...

In this reading of her blog, Jennifer Daw, one of the SafeLives Research Analysts, looks at the reasons disabled victims of domestic abuse are not being identified at Maracs. You can read Jennifer's blog here: http://safelives.org.uk/node/914 Through October and November, we'll be focusing on the ways disabled people experience domestic abuse and the ways they can seek help. We'll be looking close...

This week, Emma talks to Jane, a hospital-based Idva and Mel, the adult social care Marac representative for Cheshire East. They discuss the ways healthcare professionals and Idvas in healthcare settings can help detect older victims of domestic abuse and consider whether attitudes among the older generation are changing. Are older people more readily identifying themselves as victims? Read the tr...

This week, Rachel talks to Margaret Smith, an Idva with Safer Wales, about validating the experiences of older people, making them feel safe and asking the right questions at the right time. Margaret's presentation on safeguarding older people: http://tinyurl.com/zhbwwu7 Download the transcript for this podcast: http://tinyurl.com/z45a8cz IMPORTANT: The thoughts and opinions expressed in our podca...

In this episode of Spotlight, Rachel Ozanne from SafeLives talks to Rachel Nicholas, Safety Intervention Manager at Camden Council, about their successful campaign, Know It’s Not Too Late - designed to reach more older victims, More on Know It's Not Too Late: http://news.camden.gov.uk/know-its-not-too-late Read the transcript for this podcast: http://www.safelives.org.uk/sites/default/files/resour...