source: WAITS Team

published: 11 January 2024

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In 2023, WAITS clients worked in partnership with Birmingham University City to develop a conference for the West Midlands Police to share their experiences as survivors.

The aim of this conference was for the police to have a better understanding from a domestic abuse survivor's perspective of their encounters with the police and the justice system.

By creating space for open dialogue, the police were able to share with the survivors what their vision for where they aspire to be to make a difference in the experience women victims/survivors when reporting an incident, and how the police can ensure that a victim/survivor is listened to and protected.

'Dialouge Matters'

Developing leadership and knowledge about varied decision making systems, and influencing them to be favourable to BAME survivors of domestic abuse.

Since then, the women's group has embarked on a series of training sessions to help them to gain confidence, self-awareness, leadership and knowledge about varied decision making systems, and how to influence them to be favourable to BAME survivors of domestic abuse.

The SEEKERS Board is a group of empowered women who are experts by experience, working with WAITS to change policy on gender-based violence and share their experience with them to improve policies.

SEEKERS Board stands for Sharing Experience, Expertise and Knowledge for Effective Response and Safeguarding Board.