Safe, shared lives

This is a guest blog from one of our newest colleagues:

I’m Natalie and I currently work for a national domestic abuse charity called SafeLives; having worked in the domestic abuse sector for over ten years, I’ve just been seconded to Shared Lives Plus to work on a new domestic abuse project. Funded by the ‘tampon tax’, we’re going to be working in partnership over the next two years to provide an alternative accommodation option to victims and survivors of domestic abuse. We know that housing issues can place a massive barrier in the way of victims, either when trying to leave an abusive relationship or when trying to move on from previous abuse.

Unfortunately, domestic abuse is prevalent; one in four women

Read the rest of this blog at www.sharedlivesplus.org.uk