Ask and Take Action Briefings

Ask and Take Action is Agenda’s campaign to ensure staff in public services ask about domestic abuse. Read our briefings below.

Briefing for Committee Stage in the House of Lords, 2021

Briefing for Second Reading in the House of Lords, 2021

Briefing for Second Reading, 2020

Briefing for Committee Stage, 2020

Briefing for Report Stage, 2020

Briefings we support:

• The Domestic Abuse sector’s joint calls for the Bill.
• SafeLives #Invest2EndAbuse campaign which calls for a fully funded range of domestic abuse support services for children, adults and perpetrators.
• Age UK’s call for data collection about domestic abuse for adults aged 74 and over.
• The joint children and domestic abuse sector’s calls for the Domestic Abuse Bill.
• The Step Up! Migrant Women Coalition, led by the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS).
• Imkaan’s ‘Alternative Bill’, which outlines a response to VAWG that is gendered and intersectional.
  
• Joint letter to Dame Louise Casey and new government taskforce on rough sleeping to prioritise safe housing & support for women & survivors of Domestic Abuse