If you’re in danger NOW

• Call 111 for the Police- or ask neighbours or friends to ring for you

• Run outside – head for where there are other people

• Scream for help – let the neighbours hear you

• Take the children – with you and make sure they are also safe

• Don’t stop – to get anything else.

If you need help right now, phone the POLICE 111 NOW or the Women’s Refuge is available 24 hours a day via their crisis phone line. They offer 24-hour access to emergency safe house shelter, community support, and advocacy services.

If you’re living with violence or you’re a friend/family member helping someone who is:

If you’re thinking about leaving or want to know how you can help someone living with violence, please view the National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges website. It provides important information for making long term plans for a safe future:

• Thinking about leaving

• Safety planning

• Help for lesbians

• Helping someone else

• Helping children

• Helping young people

• Legal help

• Other help

No one deserves to be abused. Women and children don’t “ask for it”.