Domestic abuse is happening to people as you read this – your work colleagues, family, friends, you or someone close to you.

The Crime Survey for England and Wales estimated that 2.3 million people aged 16 years and over experienced domestic abuse in the year ending March 2024. Of the above figure 1.6 million people were women and 757,000 men.  This why training from Voices is always inclusive of all genders, sexual orientation, ages, backgrounds, everyone!

And this figure will be an under estimation as many cases go unreported and unseen.Some of us will have been subjected to abuse historically or may have witnessed it at home when we were younger.

If you are considering this training, you either want to better understand how domestic abuse affects adults and children, or you want to update your current knowledge and awareness.

The session will cover:

• What domestic abuse is – it’s definition, types of domestic abuse.
• Legislation including an overview of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
• Exploring who domestic abuse affects and how.
• What other areas of domestic abuse you may not have considered.
• Signs and indicators that someone is being subjected to domestic abuse – what may you see inside and outside of a workspace.
• An overview of how to respond to and support disclosures of domestic abuse.
• A discussion on barriers for victims and survivors – to disclosing, leaving, accessing support, and understanding historical abuse.

There will be resources after the session including details of local and national organisations who can support domestic abuse, trauma, and other forms of abuse.  The session can then lead onto other training on how to support in the workplace, safety planning, links to other organisations and more training on topics around domestic abuse.

Who the session is suitable for:

• Employees and employers.
• All job titles.
• All genders.
• All ages.

EVERYONE – we won’t recognise domestic abuse if we don’t know what it looks like – we can all support if we do.

Available online or face to face – if you want a company group session this will be £350 up to 30 people (plus travel expenses face to face no VAT applies to prices).

Abuse is a human issue.