Safer Places exist to drive down the incidence and impact of domestic and sexual abuse and to support those who use our services in their journey to recovery, resilience and independence.

Safer Places has over 40 years’ experience in delivering holistic support services to adult and child survivors of Domestic Abuse across Essex and Hertfordshire.

Our team take a non-judgemental and respectful approach to their work and we will do all that we can to ensure that everyone who needs our services can use them, how they want to, when they want to, and where they want to. We are proud to work inclusively with anyone who has experienced abuse and our services are designed to reach everyone impacted by abuse.

The support that we offer is holistic, trauma informed and individually tailored to each survivor.

Due to our extensive experience and knowledge we are also an accredited training provider for the OCN, NCFE and the University of Hertfordshire and provide qualifications for domestic abuse and stalking professionals from level 2-4 including the following;
* OCNLR Level 3 Qualifications in Domestic Abuse: Prevention and Early Intervention, formally known as the Independent Domestic Violence Advocates (IDVA) Course
* OCNLR Sexual Violence Advisor
* OCNLR Young persons violence advisor
* OCNLR Older persons violence advisor
* NCFE Level 2 in Understanding Domestic Abuse
* Level 4 Independent Stalking Advocacy Specialist

We also provide short courses for organisations covering all aspects of domestic abuse and stalking as well as consultancy work and train the trainer.