Results for sexual abuse

September 30, 2021 · Press Release

Refuge data shows Black women experiencing domestic abuse less likely to be referred for specialist support by police New data from Refuge, the UK’s largest single provider of domestic abuse services, shows that Black women are less likely to be referred by police to Refuge for support. Between March 2020 and June 2021, Black women […]

October 29, 2021 · Press Release

On International Internet Day, Refuge launches ‘Unsocial spaces’ – a report on the online abuse of women and says social media companies, and other online platforms, are ‘failing to protect women and girls from abuse.’ Report calls on the government to explicitly include Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in the Online Safety Bill to […]

October 14, 2020 · Press Release

8.7 million people report experiencing economic abuse – and 1.6 million saw this begin as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Co-operative Bank and Refuge, the UKs largest national domestic abuse charity release “Know Economic Abuse” report – five years on from launching landmark campaign to tackle economic abuse Approximately 16% of all UK […]

September 23, 2022 · Press Release

A coalition of experts including the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Glitch, Refuge, Carnegie UK, NSPCC, 5Rights and Professors Clare McGlynn and Lorna Woods have come together for the first time to create a ready-to-use set of guidelines, or ‘Code of Practice’ to tackle violence against women and girls online. If adopted, the code would […]

December 8, 2020 · Press Release

Campaign calls for reform to tackle long-term financial impact of economic abuse on survivors One in five survivors (21%) left unable to repay debt and 26% have a negatively impacted credit rating Survivors of economic abuse in debt will owe £3,272 on average – however one in four have debts in excess of £5,000 The […]

The prison population is at crisis point and successive governments have announced a series of emergency measures to tackle this. We examine what these measures mean for survivors of domestic abuse and outline our recommendations to government.

Rooted in gender inequality, gender-based violence is mostly inflicted by men on women and girls. We offer support to women who’ve experienced a wide range of gender-based violence.

May 17, 2022 · Press Release

A coalition of experts including the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Glitch, Refuge, Carnegie UK, NSPCC, 5Rights and Professors Clare McGlynn and Lorna Woods have come together for the first time to create a ready-to-use set of guidelines, or ‘Code of Practice’ to tackle violence against women and girls online. If adopted, the code would […]

November 2, 2020 · Blog | Press Release

Today is my final day as Chief Executive of Refuge, an organisation I have led, and loved, for nearly four decades. A lot has changed in the world during this time – and at Refuge – but one thing remains the same: domestic abuse is a horror that millions of women around the world live with […]

July 6, 2022 · News | Press Release

Refuge, the country’s largest single provider of specialist domestic abuse services, is today sounding the alarm on the impact the cost-of-living crisis is having on the women and children they support, with almost three quarters of frontline staff reporting that survivors are facing increased barriers to leaving their perpetrators.

July 7, 2022 · Press Release

A coalition of experts including the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Glitch, Refuge, Carnegie UK, NSPCC, 5Rights and Professors Clare McGlynn and Lorna Woods have come together for the first time to create a ready-to-use set of guidelines, or ‘Code of Practice’ to tackle violence against women and girls online. If adopted, the code would […]

June 11, 2021 · Blog | Press Release

As a football fan – and a domestic abuser worker – this is what I want you to know.  Kim Manning-Cooper, Refuge head of communications Tonight, the long-awaited Euros start. The tournament that should have begun last summer, paused because of the pandemic, will be about so much more than the start of a football […]