The specialists in co-creating better responses to violence, abuse and harm.
Tackling gender-based violence, domestic and sexual abuse, hate crime, and the harms affecting children and young people.
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In practice
Our recent work tackling family harm
Two ways into the same problem. Child to parent abuse is complex, sitting between child and adult safeguarding, domestic abuse, mental health, criminal justice, housing and substance support services - and we collaborate with the institutions and families that have to hold all of it.
Two recent commissions, two different methods, one shared question: what works?
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, March 2025
Fractured Bonds: Adult-Child to Parent Abuse (ACPA) in London
A 9-month research and innovation project, including a 4-month trial across 17 London boroughs. A new approach to tackling ACPA that puts families’ (including the adult-child’s) needs at the heart of a coordinated multi-agency response. Training developed, action groups set up in safeguarding teams, a practitioner toolkit published, and a new co-created ‘ACPA needs and risks’ tool for practitioners to freely use.
London Violence Reduction Unit, January 2026
Evaluating London's child and adolescent to parent abuse (CAPVA) programmes
A 16-month developmental evaluation across three boroughs and two delivery models, with learning shared along the way. Practitioner understanding of CAPVA rose from 17% to 100%. 19 evidence-based recommendations now shaping pan-London strategy.
How we work
Real progress in tackling violence, abuse and harm happens when we break out of our silos and work together
Systems often respond to harm after it happens, in silos that don't talk to each other. We work differently. Four principles shape every collaboration we build.
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We ringfence victim and survivor compensation in our research budgets from day one. The specialist 'by-and-for' organisations who work with minoritised communities every day are equal partners in our research - properly named, properly resourced. People who share their expertise deserve to be paid for it.
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Race, immigration status, disability, age, sexuality and faith aren't a chapter in the appendix, they shape every methodology choice we make. From who we partner with, to how we engage participants, to whose voices end up in the final recommendations.
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Real change, the kind that actually delivers the outcomes people want, only happens when we break out of our silos. The hardest problems in violence, abuse and harm sit across the work of social workers, researchers, clinicians, policymakers, lawyers, educators, experts by experience, service designers and many more. We bring them together. Every project has its own expert A-team.
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Tools, frameworks, training, trial-tested approaches. Every collaboration produces something practical that keeps working after we've gone. Whether we stay involved or not, what we build keeps working.
What we offer
Bespoke consultancy collaborations
Every collaboration is different, because every problem is different. We design our work around what you actually need, drawing on:
Mixed-methods research: combining qualitative and quantitative methods with lived experience to understand complex problems
Programme and policy evaluation: independent evaluation that shows what's working, what isn't and what to do next
Practice innovation: co-creating, trialling and embedding new ways of working
Strategy development: synthesising evidence into a strategy you can act on
Multi-agency pathway and service design: designing how services and partners work together in practice
Co-creation training and facilitation: building your team's capability to lead genuine co-creation
Specialist advisory and policy support: ongoing expert input for strategy boards, commissioning teams and policy work
Recent collaborations have run from a single-day training session to an 18-month research and innovation programme. Recent commissioners include the Mayor of London’s Office for Policing and Crime, Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the London Violence Reduction Unit.
Let’s build something exciting together
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Whether you’re a commissioner, researcher, practitioner or simply curious, we'd love to hear from you. Bring us a brief, a question, an idea or the first sparks of a thought.