domestic violence
“Domestic violence and abuse and vulnerabilities are much easier to pick up on in person,” one expert warns, as health visitors move much of their work online and over the phone.
I was cut off from the world and believed fleeing my partner would risk not only me and my children’s lives. Thousands of women are walking that same path now.
"When lockdown was announced I couldn’t shake the feeling of dread,” says one campaigner.
Communities secretary Robert Jenrick said for domestic abuse victims, lockdown meant “being trapped in a nightmare”.
Visibility on women’s issues from the frontline might mean Coronavirus is the long-awaited catalyst for sustainable change, researcher Dalia Ben-Galim writes.
Victims' commissioner Dame Vera Baird says people are cooped up with their abusers.
Bids for cash revealed after calls to helplines surge during lockdown, prompting fears victims are being trapped with abusers.
A further 350 hospital deaths in England, Scotland and Wales have been recorded. Here's the latest.
Without action "we will be dealing with serious consequences for a generation", Commons home affairs committee says.
Labour shadow minister tells HuffPost UK Priti Patel is "missing in action" and has failed to build a strategic plan for victims.