Culture and Domestic Abuse Risk

This session explores culture as a factor in domestic abuse risk, including so-called honour-based violence and abuse. It looks at how culture can support a survivor's safety or be used to control them.

This session is part of our Intersectional Risk Tracker Tool (IRTT) factor series. It looks in depth at the IRTT factor on cultural considerations.

Audience

This session is for IDVAs, ISVAs, advocates, safeguarding leads, managers and commissioners across the domestic and sexual abuse sector.

Content

• Culture as a factor in domestic abuse risk
• Culture as a source of safety and as a means of control
• So-called honour-based violence and abuse, shame and community pressure
• Assessing cultural factors accurately, using the IRTT

Format

The session runs online on Zoom for one and a half hours and costs £35. The joining link is sent to you before the session starts.

Data protection

We Are Frieda CIC (company number 12772194) is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under ZC265841, and our Data Protection Officer is Bennjoseph Vaughan. The details you give at booking are used to run this session and to contact you about it. Our privacy policy can be found at wearefrieda.org.uk/privacy-policy.

Contact

talkto@wearefrieda.org.uk
57 Corporation Street, Coventry, CV1 1GX
Instagram @wearefrieda.cic