From 9.30am – 4.00pm @ Bethnal Green Meeting House, Pott Street, London E2 0EF Speakers: Christa Welsh, Royston John, Gill Gorell Barnes and Alan Cooklin The Conference Fee is £65, SRF members £45, students £40. Your delegate fee includes refreshments and a hot Caribbean lunch. There is an early bird discount of £5 if you […]

New measures in the Crime and Policing Bill will disregard and pardon unjust ‘child prostitution’ convictions and cautions received before the law changed in 2015. Victims of child exploitation and abuse will finally get long-overdue justice, as the government on 4 November 2025) tabled amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill to disregard and pardon […]

National Personal Safety Day is an annual event that raises awareness of personal safety issues and recommends ways to reduce violence, aggression, and abuse. Established by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, which campaigns to reduce risk and prevalence of abuse, aggression, and violence – with a specific focus on stalking and harassment, it is supported by […]

Natalie Kyneswood and Alma Ionescu (University of Oxford) are keen to hear directly from victims and survivors about their experiences of giving evidence in rape and sexual assault trials at Newcastle Crown Court, Leeds Crown Court and Snaresbrook Crown Court. They have produced a video and leaflet about the study, available on the Victim and Survivor Participation […]

On 22 October 2025, the UK Government has announced its intention to repeal the presumption of parental involvement from the Children Act 1989.   For many years, the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, the domestic abuse sector and campaigners have spoken out about the risks with presumption of parental involvement, which has contributed to a pro-contact culture and enabled domestic abuse perpetrators to inflict further harm through unsafe contact orders and have called for […]

From next month, survivors of violence and domestic abuse will no longer have to pay over £300 to ensure their abuser cannot track them down via public records. Person at Risk of Violence (PARV) Order fees will be scrapped, saving victims hundreds of pounds Changes will remove costs as a barrier to safety and protect […]

Richard Wright KC will lead independent review as part of government mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade. To help ensure stalking victims get the protection they need and more offenders are brought to justice, a major independent review of stalking laws was launched on 22 October 2025. For far too […]

Justice denied? Accountability after domestic abuse-related suicides and unexplained deaths. AAFDA calls for a new law which captures the culpability of perpetrators of domestic abuse as regards these deaths and which enables juries to see more clearly the causation of suicide from domestic abuse. Without a new law to clarify this culpability, AAFDA fears that […]

A team from Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS has identified changes in brain connectivity in women who have recently experienced sexual assault and developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study, presented at the ECNP 2025 Congress in Amsterdam, shows that communication between two key brain regions —the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex— is significantly reduced, which may be […]

A team from Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS has identified changes in brain connectivity in women who have recently experienced sexual assault and developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study, presented at the ECNP 2025 Congress in Amsterdam, shows that communication between two key brain regions —the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex— is significantly reduced, which may be […]