Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it. Economic abuse can leave victim-survivors facing debt, poverty and housing insecurity, making it harder to rebuild their financial independence.
Building on its previous Compass project supported by the Financial Futures Fund, this project will help Surviving Economic Abuse scale its Local Economic Abuse Advocacy Model. The model helps local services identify economic abuse earlier and coordinate support across domestic abuse services, debt advice, housing, welfare and financial inclusion. Funding will also support an Impact Hub providing training, tools and shared learning for practitioners and commissioners.
The project aims to work across 10 local authority areas, training 2,500 practitioners and strengthening how local services identify and respond to economic abuse. It aims to increase identification of economic abuse by 30% in each area and, through the practitioners and services involved, ultimately improve responses for 30,000 victim-survivors. Alongside this direct scale, learning from the programme will be used to influence commissioning and support wider adoption of the model, helping build stronger responses to economic abuse across the country.