Shadow Pandemic report

The Shadow Pandemic: Domestic Abuse Learning Partnership was set up with the support of The National Lottery Community Fund following initial conversations about what the sector needed in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic.

We set out to bring together the voices of survivors and practitioners, relevant research from each organisation, and practical and policy expertise, to demonstrate how the response to domestic abuse needs to change in the long-term, after and as a result of Covid-19.

This report looks at the impact of Covid-19 on survivors of domestic abuse and on the frontline organisations that support them. It explores innovations from the domestic abuse sector in response the many challenges brought by the pandemic as well as gaps in the systemic response to domestic abuse from across different sectors and levels of Government.