29 Jan 2016
Two reports exploring the interaction of violence, abuse, poverty and multiple disadvantage in the lives of women and the implications of this for policymakers.
Hidden Hurt provides evidence that women who experience the most extensive abuse and violence (both as children and adults) are more likely to face other adverse circumstances in their lives such as poor mental and physical health, disability, and substance misuse, poverty, debt, poor housing, and homelessness.
Similarly, Joining the Dots, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, outlines the strength of the link between violence and poverty in women's lives: women in poverty are more than twice as likely to experience almost every kind of abuse and violence as women not in poverty.
With thanks to Barrow Cadbury Trust, Lankelly Chase, Pilgrim Trust and Monument.
