Resources

Some of the questions in the game are taken from source material that you may like to refer to if you wish to extend your knowledge.


SafeLives would always recommend that the person leading the game has a good background knowledge of domestic abuse, safeguarding and local/national frameworks for support. They have also written some guidance notes which should be reviewed before playing the game.

Q1: Royal College of Nursing (2019) Who’s Vulnerable?

Q2: Home Office (2013) Definition of domestic violence and abuse: guide for local areas.

Q5: Living Without Abuse (2019) Who is affected by abuse?

Q7: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2016) Domestic violence and abuse: Quality Standard.

Q9: SafeLives (2019) Who are the victims of domestic abuse?

Q10 & 12: Office for National Statistics (2017)

Q13: Stonewall (2012) Domestic Abuse – Stonewall Health Briefing

Q14, 15, 16, 18, 19: Social Care Institute for Excellence (2018) Types and indicators of abuse

Q17: Woman’s Aid (2019) What is coercive control?

Q23: Women’s Aid (2019) The impact of domestic abuse on children & young people

Q26: Ahmad I, Ali PA, Rehman S, Talpur A, Dhingra K( 2017) Intimate partner violence screening in emergency department: a rapid review of the literature, Journal of Clinical Nursing

Q30: Ali P, McGarry J (2018) Supporting people who experience intimate partner violence. Nursing Standard.

Q36: SafeLives (2016) Safe Later Lives: Older People and Domestic Abuse

Q37 - 42: Department of Health (2017) Responding to domestic abuse: A resource for health professionals

Q44: Home Office (2017) The economic and social costs of domestic abuse