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What is a typical day for you?<br />
6.45-7.30 – hit snooze button repeatedly<br />
7.30 – 8.30 – get ready, while doing the<br />
washing, cleaning and tidying, and<br />
checking emails while I go - a successful<br />
day for me depends on my ability to<br />
multi-task<br />
8.30-10.00 – school run – and straight<br />
into the gym (conveniently situated at the<br />
kids schools)<br />
10-4.00 – meetings, meetings, meetings<br />
4-4.30 – collect children from school<br />
5-7.00 – make dinner, help the kids with<br />
their homework, cleaning, answer emails,<br />
more multi-tasking 7<br />
7- 11pm – either working on Sateda<br />
funding bids, reports, plans – or working<br />
on my thesis<br />
11-12.00 – bed<br />
When you are ready to leave, if you want<br />
to report the abuse to the police, please<br />
know that they are getting so much better<br />
at responding to domestic abuse –<br />
however, try and access support from<br />
your local domestic abuse service as they<br />
will have excellent people who will go<br />
with you to the police and advocate for<br />
you during what may be a very stressful<br />
time for you.<br />
However, you don’t have to report –<br />
and you can report and then withdraw<br />
your statement if you want to - that is<br />
your right. You have choices. Please also<br />
know that you are stronger than you give<br />
yourself credit for – you have survived<br />
things that other people wouldn’t even<br />
understand. You deserve to be treated<br />
with respect, you have value and you are<br />
worthy.<br />
How do you switch off from work?<br />
I love weight training – it gives me<br />
something to focus on which is not<br />
domestic abuse related!<br />
What positive changes in terms of<br />
victim support have you seen in<br />
your time at Sateda and what still<br />
needs to be done?<br />
In the last ten years, everyone has started<br />
to talk about domestic abuse, it is not as<br />
hidden as it was – this is good, however<br />
what has happened is we now have many<br />
more people to support and less funding.<br />
Councils are now interested in supporting<br />
DA victims beyond simply housing<br />
provision in refuge - as they know that<br />
reducing victimisation will reduce impact<br />
of local NHS, Police, housing services –<br />
and so councils are commissioning DA<br />
services in an attempt to enforce some<br />
sort of uniformity across areas. However<br />
this is threatening to eradicate small,<br />
local, passionate, specialist organisations<br />
as commissioners tend to favour bigger<br />
organisations with lower overheads and<br />
better back office functions.<br />
Liza Thompson SATEDA
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