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children, and young people. Confidentiality is crucial to building trusting relationships between service providers and service users and is an integral part of providing

Border Women’s Aid (BWA) is a GDPR compliant organisation. We are committed to safeguarding and respecting your privacy and will make every effort to hold and treat all personal data securely and sensitively.

BWA provides safe accommodation and specialist support to women and their children. Crucially we continue to support them as they rebuild their lives by sourcing and accessing community activities, reducing isolation, and enabling involvement and

What is refuge? Refuge is a calm and safe space where women can live free from fear. A welcoming, peaceful home in which you can begin to build a new life, a future free from domestic abuse.

Being safe online Confidentiality policy I feel safer knowing BWA are supporting me You’re amazing and your support is what keeps me going Having a safety plan in place has reduced my stress I know I am not alone Thanks

Domestic abuse does not discriminate on the basis of age. Any older or any elderly person can be abused, regardless of gender, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity or background.

Women are supposed to be equal under the law. The UK has had three women Prime Ministers and Scotland’s First Minister is a woman; there are more women at college and university than ever before. Indeed, more than half of all medical students

First and foremost, domestic abuse is a crime. It involves a pattern of controlling behaviour by a partner or ex-partner to coerce you into doing what they want. Women are the main victims of abuse from male partners, but it can also happen in

Domestic abuse isn’t always physical. Often it is emotional and manipulative. Abuse can be when you feel controlled, humiliated or frightened by someone.

Domestic abuse can happen to anyone. It is overwhelmingly experienced by women and perpetrated by men. One in five women in Scotland will experience domestic abuse during her life.