Help to make contact.
The aim of our national campaign Talk about abuse is that more people are able to recognise domestic abuse and offer help to victims.
In Surrey and across the country we have excellent specialist services. Helplines, refuges, legal and police professionals are there to help. But many victims and families don’t make contact, perhaps through ignorance or fear.
Recently in The Archers, a radio soap, an abusive relationship caused wide interest and debate. The programme will have increased awareness among millions of Archers’ listeners.
But we know many more have neither the knowledge nor confidence to help themselves or their friends.
That’s why the Citizens Advice campaign wants “to enable ordinary people to recognise abuse, to talk about it safely and enable victims to make the right decisions for themselves”.