Month: August 2022

Women’s help-seeking to access services shows individual relocation journeys from every local authority before – to all local authorities that provide services – and afterwards to all local authorities.

It is a mass churn of flows.

This flow diagram presents only around three years of displacement in England due to domestic abuse – over 17,300 journeys – and doesn’t include all the women and children who didn’t go to services, who sought help but didn’t relocate, or who didn’t get any support…

You can hover your mouse over the diagram to see the figures of the flows – often only one woman recorded in the time period – and imagine the isolation and displacement of each escape. And these may only be the first stages in more complex and disruptive forced journeys…