”There are so many people you have to talk to and share your story with again and again, pension providers, coroners, it’s a lot to take on and becomes another job, just as you are on your own…I keep referring my child, but it’s not landing, and there’s nowhere for them to go that meets their needs”

Survivor reflection

As we have heard, the harm caused by coercive control doesn’t end when the perpetrator dies, it changes shape.

In this section, we’re going to be thinking about service collusion and how process, practice and procedures may be perpetuating harms.

What are systemic harms?

Reflections

Go back:

What remains: a guidebook for organisations on supporting women with experience of perpetrator suicide

Go forward:

6. Principles to support healing and enhance dignity