Slough’s Domestic Abuse Specialist services provide support to survivors of Domestic Abuse through:

  • Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVA): Based in Slough and East Berkshire, working to provide survivors of Domestic Abuse and their children to reduce risk and improve their safety.
  • Floating Support: you can contact the team directly or be referred by an external agency.
  • BAMER Floating Support: A specialist worker providing community-based outreach support to survivors of abuse from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee communities.
  • The Freedom Programme: This service empowers service users and their children with their own resources to they are better equipped to remain safe from Domestic Abuse.
  • Medium Risk Safety Planner: This member of staff supports victims of Domestic Abuse across East Berkshire after an incident of Domestic Abuse, supporting them to understand their own risk and develop a safety plan.

Get support

If you are in immediate danger, please call 999.

The Freephone National Domestic Abuse Helpline, run by Refuge, is available on 0808 2000 247, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The helpline is answered by fully trained female support workers and volunteers who will answer your call in confidence.

Hestia's Refuge Referral Line also helps women and children to find domestic abuse refuge spaces across London and the south east. Call 0808 169 9975 or email us at [email protected], Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm.