Technology Facilitated Domestic Abuse

Sam Brown • September 27, 2023

PEGS attend Technology Facilitated Domestic Abuse training with Refuge

With the rise, development and advancement of technology in recent times, there has been an increase in technology facilitated domestic abuse. Due to this being an ever-growing issue, the team at PEGS enrolled on a highly informative online training session with Refuge, a domestic violence charity that supports women and children. Refuge is the only UK charity that has a specialist team dedicated to supporting women and children experiencing technology facilitated abuse. 


This was a fantastic opportunity for us, and has massively increased our awareness and knowledge on this specific area of domestic abuse.


Whilst the session we attended was focused on domestic partner abuse, we also found it useful as a child to parent abuse organisation.

Najad led the session and made it engaging and helpful for all of us. We are an organisation who have knowledge and expertise in the domestic abuse sector, but even for us the session did educate us on topics we previously knew little about.


PEGS staff who took part in the course have said it has already helped them when speaking to parents and that they have been able to offer better support to parents who are suffering digital abuse as a result of the training. As a team who are advocating for parents experiencing Child to Parent domestic abuse, we are always keen to learn as much as possible to provide the best possible service to our parents.

 

“I was fortunate enough to attend the 'Digital Abuse Awareness Training' with Refuge.

It was both informative and eye opening!

It was packed with information about the types of digital abuse there are, and how this can impact an individual's freedom, safety and wellbeing.

The information I gained from this course will directly help me to better support the parents who use our service.

It has also prompted me to review my own online security!

Many thanks.”

Cathy Hughes

Child to Parent Abuse Practitioner

 

For anyone who wants to learn more about this topic, and the methods that can be put in place to help prevent this type of abuse occurring, we would highly recommend the Refuge training programme. We thank them for their time in putting the session on.

 

Please find attached some links to Refuge’s website and social media accounts:

https://refuge.org.uk/?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuZGnBhD1ARIsACxbAVg4PMZ0n29ZrxmmVZ-raT7KaOUtbAW7CdGz-vQ4Orc7bWBprRWbRAwaAkXeEALw_wcB

www.refugetechsafety.org

https://twitter.com/RefugeCharity

https://www.facebook.com/RefugeCharity/?locale=en_GB

https://www.instagram.com/refugecharity/?hl=en

 


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