Personalised approach to risk: learning event 8

Domestic and sexual violence, self-harm, and suicide

Thursday 29 January 2026

On this page:

• Recording of the session
• Links and resources
  • Research
  • NICE resources
  • Culture of Care resources
  • Neurodiverse Connection resources
  • Lived-experience led resources
  • Other resources

Recording of the session

Domestic and sexual violence, self-harm, and suicide risk

At this learning event, we overviewed evidence and lived experience of trauma, domestic and sexual violence, self-harm and suicide.

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Links and resources

Research

• Identifying, assessing and responding to perpetration of domestic abuse: practice guide for mental health professionals (BJPsych Advances, 2024)
• Domestic violence and suicide in women under the care of mental health services in the UK, 2015-2021: a national observational study (The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, 2025)
• Sexual assault in the inpatient psychiatric setting (General Hospital Psychiatry, 2023)

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NICE resources

• Domestic violence and abuse quality standard
• Domestic violence and abuse: multi-agency working guideline
• Scenario: Managing domestic abuse

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Culture of Care resources

• Preventing sexual violence on wards training – additional guidance

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Neurodiverse Connection resources

• Grooming and Coercive Control Summit 2023
• Grooming and Coercive Control Summit 2023 – support organisations

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Lived experience-led resources

• Survivors Voices
• New Ways of Supporting Child Abuse and Sexual Violence Survivors (Prepared by Jo Lomani in collaboration with Survivors Voices)
• Rapid Response to ‘Medical colleges and unions call for inquiry over ‘shocking’ levels of sexual assault in the NHS (The BMJ)

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Other resources

• Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (legislation.gov.uk)
• Responding to domestic abuse: a resource for health professionals (Department of Health)
• Supporting patients who make disclosures of sexual violence on inpatient wards: A practical guide for mental health professionals (Rachel Luby)
• Standards and guidance to improve sexual safety on mental health and learning disabilities inpatient pathways (Sexual Safety Collaborative)
• Sexual safety on mental health wards (Care Quality Commission)
• Written evidence submitted by Dr Philippa Greenwood and Dr Beena Rajkumar
• IRISi interventions
• Emma Nielsen’s ‘Art of Hope’ social project
• Tim Woodhouse’s Churchill Fellowship profile: Reducing suicide amongst people impacted by domestic abuse

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This work was completed as part of the Culture of Care Programme. The work was supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (GM PSRC) (Grant Reference Number NIHR204295). Leah Quinlivan is fully funded by the NIHR GM PSRC, Pauline Rivart was part funded by the NIHR GM PSRC, and Professor Nav Kapur is part funded by the NIHR GM PSRC.  The views expressed on this webpage are those of the authors and not necessarily those of NICE, NIHR, NHS, or the UK Department of Health and Social Care.

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