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Domestic abuse awareness practice
The staff in your GP practice are trained to ask about domestic abuse and specialist workers are available to support you. Your practice is an ‘IRIS’ practice. You can talk to the doctors, nurses or other staff working here, if you are being hurt or controlled by your current or ex-partner, are afraid of someone at home or a member of your family.
The IRIS service is for all GP patients and staff, both women and men, aged 16 or over, whatever age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity or background. IRIS’s oldest patient so far is over 80.
Social isolation can increase stress at home, impacting on you and your family’s well-being. Your GP practice is here to help you.
Please contact your GP or Practice Nurse for help and advice. They will refer you to the practice’s IRIS worker, the ‘IRIS Advocate Educator’.
IRIS office
- Telephone: 0161 820 8416 from 9am to 4:30pm
- In an emergency call the Police on 999.
Local Support
Silent solutions police
In an emergency call 999 for emergency services. If you cannot safely speak to the operator to ask for the Police, stay on the line and the call will be forwarded to an operating system. Press 55 to be transferred to the local police force as an emergency.
Silent Call to Police: 999, wait, then 55
Manchester Women’s Aid
Manchester Women’s Aid's mission is to support women, children and wider communities experiencing domestic abuse by providing a wide range of high-quality services that will help them live a life free from abuse.
Greater Manchester Domestic Abuse Helpline
Telephone: 0161 636 7525
Saheli Asian Women’s Project
Saheli Asian Women’s Project provides advice, information and support services to Asian women and their children fleeing domestic abuse and forced marriages. We are based in Manchester.
Community Language Helpline Service
Community language helpline service with support for Urdu and Punjabi speakers.
Telephone: 0161 636 7525
End the Fear: Greater Manchester
If you're experiencing domestic or sexual violence, help and support are available. End the Fear also assists those who know someone being abused. They encourage victims in Greater Manchester to seek support; you don't have to endure domestic abuse.
Manchester Social Care
Social care in Manchester is run by the Manchester Local Care Organisation (MLCO). This is a partnership between the Council and NHS.
Talk Listen Change (TLC)
TLC are the local provider of perpetrator behaviour change programmes in Manchester.
Telephone: 0161 872 1100
National Support
SafeLives
If you are experiencing domestic abuse or are supporting someone who is in that situation, immediate help is available.
National Domestic Abuse Helpline
Are you experiencing domestic abuse? You are not alone. The Helpline can help you find a refuge vacancy for you and your children; call them more information. They can also support you to find other specialist services in your community, which can provide support whether or not you have left your partner. If you are experiencing domestic abuse or are supporting someone who is in that situation, immediate help is available.
Survivors UK - Male Rape and Sexual Abuse Support
Survivors UK help sexually abused men, as well as their friends and family, no matter when the abuse happened, and challenge the silence and attitudes.
Rape Crisis
National organisation offering support and counselling for those affected by rape and sexual abuse.
Victim Support
As an independent charity, we work towards a world where people affected by crime or traumatic events get the support they need and the respect they deserve. We help people feel safer and find the strength to move beyond crime. Support is free, confidential and tailored to your needs.
Bright Sky App
Bright Sky is a free to download mobile app providing support and information to anyone who may be in an abusive relationship, or those concerned about someone they know.
Available in four languages: English, Urdu, Punjabi and Polish.
Galop LGBT Domestic Violence Helpline
Galop helpline is for LGBT+ people experiencing abuse or violence, such as hate crime, domestic abuse, sexual violence, so-called “conversion therapy” or any other kind of abuse.
Karma Nirvana
Karma Nirvana run the national Honour Based Abuse Helpline, train professionals, gather data to inform policies and services, and campaigns for change.
Respect
The Respect Phone line is a confidential helpline and support service for perpetrators of domestic abuse seeking help to change their behaviour. They assist both male and female perpetrators in all types of relationships. Partners, ex-partners, and family members can also reach out for advice and support.
Surviving Economic Abuse
Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is the only UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it. We work to save lives and stop economic abuse forever.