Research reports
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- Research report on the use and effectiveness of exclusion orders
- 2011
- SWA commissioned research into the use of using the Matrimonial Homes Family Protection (Scotland) Act 1981.
The focus of the research was to identify why women are not using exclusion orders as a remedy. The factors influencing these decision; along with the attitude and awareness of legal practitioners and the courts to the use of exclusion orders as a protection against domestic abuse, are highlighted and discussed in the report.
The report presents seven recommendations that we hope will make exclusion orders more accessible and understandable and encourage their use as an effective means of protecting women, children and young people experience domestic abuse to remain in their own home.
- Download the full research report [579 kB PDF]
- Research report on the use and effectiveness of exclusion orders
- 2011
- Summarry research report on the use of using the Matrimonial Homes Family Protection (Scotland) Act 1981.
- Download the summary research report [120 kB PDF]
- Funding for Women’s Aid in Scotland
- 2011
- This is the fourth annual survey of funding for Women’s Aid services in Scotland. The report highlights the impact reduced and increasingly insecure levels of funding are having on domestic abuse support services for women and children.
- Download Funding Report [132 kB PDF]
- National Outcome Evaluation of Women's Aid Support Services
- 2011
- Scottish Women's understook an outcome evaluation of Women's Aid services in Scotland. The purpose of the project was to demonstrate positive outcomes for women who use Women's Aid services.
- Download National Outcome Evaluation Report [1.09 MB PDF]
- Analysis of Local Authority Gender Equality Schemes
- 2010
- The Gender Equality Duty requires public authorities to publish a Gender Equality Scheme (GES) which sets out the priorities and actions they will take to further gender equality. Local authorities in Scotland are required to publish revised GESs by the end of June 2010. SWA analysed current local authority GESs and identified the extent to which they did or did not include measures to tackle violence against women.
- Download Analysis of LA GESs 2010 [69 kB PDF]
- Scottish Women's Aid analysis of local authority Single Outcome Agreements 2009
- 2009
- In 2008 Scottish Women's Aid published its analysis of the 2008-09 SOAs, to assess the extent to which local authorities included reference to domestic abuse. This analysis found that domestic abuse received limited coverage in the SOAs and only 5 referred to it as a specific priority.
One year on, SOAs are strategic plans at Community Planning Partnership level, providing a strategic opportunity to develop joined up work to tackle domestic abuse\violence against women across Scotland. This analysis reviews how this has been put into practice in 2009.
- Download SOA Analysis 2009 [105 kB PDF]
- Children & Young People as Partners in the Design and Comissioning of Research
- 2008
- This report describes how SWA involved children and young people in the comissioning, design and dissemination of 'The Support Needs of Children and Young People Who Have to Move Home Because of Domesitc Abuse' research. It provides insights into how those invovled experienced the process.
- Children & Young People as Partners in the Design and Comissioning of Research [461 kB PDF]
- No Recourse to Public Funds Survey Report
- 2008
- This report provides findings of a survey carried out with Women's Aid groups in Scotland about women who have no recourse to public funds. It explores how having no recourse to public funds affects this group of womens access to Women's Aid support services.
- Women with No Recourse to Public Funds Survey Report (70 kB) [70.9 kB PDF]
- Scottish Women's Aid analysis of local authority Single Outcome Agreements 2008
- 2008
- SWA has carried out an analysis of local authority Single Outcome Agreements to assess the extent to which local authorities have included reference to domestic abuse.
- [83.8 kB PDF]
- REM: Refuges' Evaluation Modelling
- 2007
- Describes the process for building a model for evaluating the effectiveness of women's refuges in the European Union.
- Download Refuges' Evaluation Modelling [255 kB PDF]
- Support Needs of Children and Young People who have to move because of Domestic Abuse
- Research Report
- 2007
- This report explores the views, experiences and support needs of children and young people who have to move home as a result of domestic abuse. Considers how existing services for children and young people might be improved and factors which inform the process of building new services.
- Download Support Needs of Children and Young People [7.01 MB PDF]
- Substance Misuse Domestic Abuse
- Making Links
- 2005
- Conference report highlighting the links between domestic abuse and substance misuse, the challenges and opportunities for cross-sectoral work and explores the views of substance misusing women on service provision.
- Download Substance Misuse Domestic Abuse [1.13 MB PDF]
- Sustaining Tenancies following Domestic Abuse
- 2004
- This research investigates the duration of tenancies of women who have been rehoused because of domestic abuse and defines the key factors which determine whether tenancies will be sustained.
- Download Sustaining Tenancies [673 kB PDF]