Responding to domestic abuse is core housing business, but good practice needs safe accommodation

Dr Lynne McMordie, research fellow, Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research (I-SPHERE), Heriot-Watt University.

Our evaluation of the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance’s (DAHA) Homelessness and Supported Accommodation accreditation found that embedding domestic abuse awareness across an organisation can substantially change how abuse is recognised and responded to, with important benefits for survivors, staff and housing outcomes. But it also revealed a hard limit: even much stronger practice cannot fully compensate for wider systems that often fail women facing multiple disadvantage.

Read the full article from HQM here.