Supporting sex workers experiencing domestic abuse – DHR Learning Points

Cost: Free to people working in Nottinghamshire county

(Chargeable outside of these areas)

Location: Online – MS Teams

Duration: 1 hour

About this training:

This briefing will focus on Beyond the Streets’ new report titled ‘Lessons Learnt? Domestic Homicide Reviews through a Sex Industry Lens’, which investigates the prevalence of involvement in the sex industry amongst publicly available domestic homicide reviews (DHRs). This briefing will discuss the findings emerging from this report in relation to the commonalities in experiences faced by the women, and the agency response in these cases. The briefing will also make recommendations as to how these findings can be implemented into policy and practice.

Beyond the Streets

Beyond the Streets is a UK charity with over 20 years’ experience of partnering with women in the sex industry, to see them safe from coercion, violence and abuse. We deliver trauma-informed, person-centred support, provide training for the third sector and statutory professionals, and create resources and reports informed by research, lived experience, and practitioner experience. Our training and partnership work seeks to equip professionals to understand the sex industry, particularly survival sex, and to support them to engage with women selling sex in a trauma-informed way.

Facilitators:

Juliette Hasham is the Research and Impact Officer for Beyond the Streets, where her role focuses on ensuring that the work of Beyond the Streets is informed by learning from lived experience, practitioner experience and academic research. Juliette has a career history of working in research and data analysis with a focus on sexual abuse and violence against women.

Katie Thorlby is the Research and Impact Manager at Beyond the Streets and has been part of the Senior Leadership Team since 2017. She has a PhD from the University of Durham which explored routes out of the sex industry and is responsible for developing and implementing innovative research projects to inform service delivery, training and policy development. She coordinates engagement with the wider policy sector and has previously led on grant fundraising within the charity. Juliette Hasham is the Research and Impact Officer for Beyond the Streets, where her role focuses on ensuring that the work of Beyond the Streets is informed by learning from lived experience, practitioner experience and academic research. Juliette has a career history of working in research and data analysis with a focus on sexual abuse and violence against women.

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Please be aware that this session will contain some reference to types of domestic abuse. It is recommended that the session is attended in a quiet and confidential space. If you are impacted by the content of the session, you will be provided with points of contact as part of your follow on resources, and reference will be made to support options in the session.

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Cost

Please be aware: due to the conditions of our funding, this training is free to people working in Nottinghamshire County – chargeable outside of these areas.

We are monitoring the attendance list and you will be asked to pay if you do not qualify for a free ticket.

Funders

Funded by County Deep Dive initiative as part of the aditional barriers awareness campaign.

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