As an employer, your actions can significantly impact someone’s life, potentially even saving it.

The Domestic Abuse team at Doncaster Council provides a comprehensive, FREE training program for professionals and volunteers throughout Doncaster. This initiative allows participants to select courses that align with their specific job roles.  Employers have a responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of their employees. The statutory guidance that accompanies the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 emphasizes the importance of considering the effects of domestic abuse on employees as part of your duty of care.

No one should have to sacrifice their ability to work due to experiencing domestic abuse. Regrettably, the effects extend beyond the victim-survivor; domestic abuse often negatively influences the morale of other employees as well as an organisation’s image and reputation
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 makes clear that employers should consider the impact of domestic abuse on their employees as part of their duty of care. Even, when the perpetrator does not enter the workplace or pursue the victim at work, domestic abuse nearly always impacts the victim-survivor’s productivity and ability to work:
 

• Nearly 9 out of 10 workers experiencing domestic abuse said it impacted their performance at work³
• Over half of those experiencing domestic abuse must take time off work as a result of abuse and nearly half were late to work³
• Of those who had experienced domestic abuse, over 40% said it had affected their ability to get to work³
• Over one in five working women have taken time off work because of domestic abuse and one in fifty women lose their jobs because of experiencing domestic abuse³
• Over one in ten of those who experience domestic abuse report that the abuse continues in the workplace; in 81% of cases this is through abusive emails or phone calls²
   
• 47%   of those experiencing domestic abuse say that the perpetrator turned up at their workplace or stalked them outside their place of work²
   
• In a 2014 report, 16% of those who had experienced domestic abuse said that the perpetrator worked in the same place as they did.
   
• Over a quarter of workers had been threatened or harmed by the person abusing a colleague, according to a 2014 report³
   
• 90% of those experiencing domestic abuse said it had created conflict and tension with their colleagues³