Spotlight: The Podcast For The Domestic Abuse Sector

As part of our project gathering the voices of men and boys, Susie spoke to Godfrey about his experiences of domestic abuse. Note: this interview contains some descriptions of abusive behaviour

We're gathering the voices of men and boys, exploring relationships, masculinity and more. In this interview, Susie speaks to eleven year old Cole about what it's like to be a boy growing up today - and what sort of man he'd like to be

Michelle Phillips, Head of Practice at SafeLives, spoke to Dr Emma Katz about the significance of the relationship between the non abusive parent and their children with children's social care. Dr Emma Katz, Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, explores the impact of domestic abuse on children and young people. Her work looks at the relationship between the child and non-abusive parent in situations of coercive control, and the agency response or resistance to this. She also looks at how mothers and children support each other, both during abuse and within recovery.

As part of our project gathering the voices of men and boys around relationships, masculinity and abuse, Ruth spoke to Justin Hancock. Take our voices of men and boys survey: https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=155626547271 Justin runs www.bishuk.com, a website for over 14s about sex, love and you. His website for practitioners is www.bishtraining.com and he also co-wrote the free RSE resources at www.dorseforschools.com. In addition to all this he also works with Meg-John Barker about sex and relationships at www.megjohnandjustin.com where you can find podcasts, blogs, zines and books for a general (adult) audience.

As part of our Spotlight on parents experiencing domestic abuse, we speak to Anna Mitchell, UK Lead for Safe and Together, about the Safe and Together model and how it relates to domestic abuse and social work

Professor Gene Feder discusses his work on a new intervention, combining mental health support and domestic abuse advocacy

Amy speaks to Jessica Southgate from Agenda, about how mental health services are treating women

Brandy speaks to Dr Savin Bapir-Tardy from IKWRO, about the impact of 'honour'-based violence and abuse on women's mental health

Collette speaks to Kylee Trevellion from the Women's Mental Health department at King's College London Download a transcript: http://safelives.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Kylee%20podcast%20transcript.pdf

As part of our Spotlight on domestic abuse and mental health, Brandy speaks to Jane and Natalie from Shared Lives who, together with SafeLives are piloting an innovative which involves survivors of domestic abuse living with a Shared Lives carer

Collette, Kathryn and Shakti, who all work in the domestic abuse sector, share their experiences of mental health problems, as well as discussing childhood experiences of domestic abuse.

Maria speaks to Chief Inspector Julie Fry, of Hampshire Constabulary, about the police response to LGBT people experiencing domestic abuse

In this podcast, Collette speaks to Berkely Wild, founder and director of The Diversity Trust – a community interest company that aims to influence social change to create a fairer and safer society. Berkeley talks about how The Diversity Trust collaborated with Bristol based Next Link domestic abuse service in a year long project to improve access to domestic abuse services in the West of England for LGBT communities, and touches upon how his own lived experience of domestic abuse has made the issue important to him. Read a transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ycybfcb5

Penny met with Tara Stone, the founder and director of Be – a trans community support, development and campaigning organisation. We talked about how to ensure services and organisations are inclusive of gender diverse people, and the additional barriers faced by gender diverse people who may be experiencing abuse. Read a transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y932jose

Collette meets with Leanne from Stonewall Housing, who explains how traditional housing options for victims of domestic abuse may be difficult for LGBT Plus people to access and how, in some cases, they may leave that person at risk of further abuse. Read the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yc86sjrv

SafeLives Insights data indicates that bisexual women are particularly vulnerable when experiencing domestic abuse, especially in terms of mental health. Ruth and Collette from SafeLives sat down to discuss their experiences as bisexual women, and the difficulties that bi women face when accessing domestic abuse services.

Rise runs a specialist LGBT refuge project offering temporary accommodation, outreach and resettlement support to medium and high risk LGBT survivors of domestic abuse. Evelyn has worked as an LGBT specialist Idva and here talks about some of the potential barriers faced by lesbian and bisexual women and highlights good practice points for Idva services to adopt. Read a transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y8jdvev3

Justin Varney, National Lead for Adult Health and Wellbeing and co-author of a new report that explores, amongst other issues, talks about how domestic abuse is a serious and under-researched health issue for L,B, & T women and other women who have sex with women. Read a transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ybuzp2wy

Collette speaks to Millie and Iain from Galop, about the needs of their clients, and how they manage safety planning and risk Read a transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yd2jm42p

Over the next seven weeks we’ll be shining a spotlight on lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans victims of domestic abuse. In this episode, Collette speaks to Jude, the helpline manager at Galop - the LGBT+ anti-violence charity. If you're LGBT+ and are worried about your relationship or afraid of your partner, help is available. Call 0800 999 5428 Read a transcript: https://tinyurl.com/y8jpa6qp