Welcome to our hub of best practice resources for professionals supporting people affected by stalking. Whether you’re working in frontline services, healthcare, education, or the voluntary sector, this page aims to bring together essential tools, guidance, and research to help you respond effectively and safely.

About stalking

Stalking is a pattern of unwanted, repeated behaviour that can leave someone feeling scared or upset. Any kind of persistent, unwanted contact that causes distress is stalking, regardless of whether it’s accompanied with threats. Stalking can include someone:

• Following you
• Turning up unexpectedly or waiting for you
• Contacting you without your permission, either in person, online, or through other people
• Sending you unwanted messages, repeatedly
• Monitoring your location or your emails and messages
• Sending unwanted gifts
• Threatening you
• Damaging your property

Resources for survivors

• Stalking information card – Discreet card for anyone experiencing stalking, signposting to the Nottinghamshire Stalking Advocacy Service. Also available in large print
• Braille Helpline card – Small white sticker signposting to the Juno Women’s Aid helpline. For women who are experiencing stalking
• Nottinghamshire Women’s Aid stalking leaflet

Research and reports

Exploring the nature, impact, and patterns of stalking

• ‘I just want this to be over’: Stalking Victims’ Experience – Preliminary Findings of Research into Stalking Victims’ Experiences of the CPS, HM Courts and Tribunal Services and the Judiciary, by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust
• Virtual World, Real Fear: Online Abuse, Harassment and Stalking (2014)

Policy

Legal updates, and multi-agency frameworks

• Stalking: Injunctive Relief – a list of civil and criminal injunctions available to protect victims of stalking
• Stalking Protection Act: statutory guidance for the police – GOV.UK – what police need to do under the Stalking Protection Act, and statutory guidance on how to apply for a stalking protection order.
• Stronger protections for stalking and harassment victims GOV.UK – in 2024, the government introduced measures making it easier for the police to apply for stalking protection orders, meaning more victims will be protected earlier.

Tools for professionals

• Suzy Lamplugh have created a poster for healthcare professionals on how to identify and refer patients to specialist stalking services. There are two versions of the poster – one for closed spaces such as staff break rooms and one for public spaces such as waiting rooms
• S-DASH Risk Identification Checklist For Use in Stalking and Harassment Cases (2009)

• Help for victims of cybercrime, digital fraud & online harm

• NWAL ‘Too Terrifed To Go Out’ briefing paper – Non-Domestic Abuse Stalking service (April 2021)

• Educational resources from the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, for young people in schools and universities

• Code of Practice for Victims of Crime in England and Wales – focusing on victims’ rights and the minimum standard organisations must provide to victims of crime.

Training

• Non-Domestic Abuse Stalking Awareness – Equation
• Accredited Independent Stalking Advocacy Caseworker (ISAC) training – Paladin

Specialist support and referral pathways

• Nottinghamshire Stalking Advocacy Service – Support by specialist advocates for anyone aged 16 or over, living in Nottinghamshire.
• Suzy Lamplugh Trust – Help and advice from the providers of the UK’s National Stalking Helpline.
• Paladin – National Stalking Advocacy Service – Support for high risk victims of stalking in England and Wales as well as training for professionals.
• Alice Ruggles Trust | Putting an end to stalking – Education about stalking for young people in schools, as well as professionals, academics and practitioners

Blogs and podcasts

• Feeling safe again – How getting support for stalking can help take control
• Stalking blog series: Fixated behaviour

If you work with those affected by stalking, access to clear, practical resources can make all the difference. We hope this page helps you feel more confident in supporting individuals safely and effectively.

For more guidance on this topic, get in touch. Email info@equation.org.uk.

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