URGENT call for support for Brighton domestic abuse charity (consultation)

[JoyousAsOtters]

Hello Vipers.

Just had this update from RISE Brighton, Sussex councils are consulting on accommodation needs. Survey closes Dec 19th

Hello
We are contacting you as someone who supported our Brighton Rise Up campaign earlier this year to save Rise domestic abuse charity from decommissioning. Thank you once again for this!
All three Sussex councils are now consulting about the future of Domestic Abuse accommodation and support and have made this available for members of the public to complete.
We would like to make sure that through this, we support women’s voices to be heard and for a focus on freeing women from abuse. We therefore ask if you can continue to show your support by completing the survey, using our notes as guidance (attached to this email).
The consultation closes on 19th December 2021.
We have put this document together to support women to take part in this consultation. We think the views of women - especially those who have experienced domestic abuse - must be central in developing this strategy. Whether or not you agree with our suggestions, we urge all women to respond to the consultation.
You can see all the information and survey detailed here to complete this:
brightonriseup.wordpress.com/pan-sussex-draft-domestic-abuse-strategy-consultation/

Best Wishes
the Brighton Rise Up team

brightonriseup.wordpress.com/

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@JoyousAsOtters is the consultation just for local residents and experts or can anyone respond?

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Hi @FindTheTruth

I think anyone can respond.

There is a question asking if you live and work in Brighton and Hove or not, but it is a survey covering services for the whole of East and West Sussex which is an enormous range - including big cities and towns, lots of retirement coastal areas (elder abuse is an issue), coastal areas which can be run down with high unemployment (also a DV co-risk factor) and rural isolated villages. Housing costs are astronomical, and access eg public transport outside of the big towns is patchy at best. All these things cause pressure on refuges and other services, quite apart from the issues of sex or gender and who should access or share which service.

I do work in the area (but don't live there) so have filled it out from that perspective, but I don't think you are discounted if you live or work elsewhere - one of the questions asks if you are a friend or family member of a survivor, for example. So obviously anyone living outside the county council parameters can still potentially be a stake-holder.

I also think these kinds of measures are probably taken as templates by other councils. Brighton and Hove is generally seen as a progressive council, and it is, but the area this applies to also covers historically small c conservative areas like Midhurst or ones where there is a predominantly older population like Bognor Regis, or a relatively high level of immigration like Littlehampton. How they manage services matters to the full range of protected characteristics - and it's likely that the measures adopted here could be used as models for elsewhere in the country, for a range of reasons. I'm concerned that women with multiple children, older women, those with disabilities, from non-English speaking backrounds or women without transport might be poorly served, in any redistribution of priorities here.

Thank you Joyous, I'll respond

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Thanks so much OP will do ASAP - I'm local.

Abused women need three things:

Money

Counselling

Money

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Phew - just finished it. I hope they don't go home early on Fridays!