Thought leadership on domestic abuse in the workplace.

Domestic Abuse in Financial Services: A Conduct and Governance Risk

When a senior relationship manager starts missing client deadlines or a compliance analyst becomes unreliable, the instinct in a regulated environment is to initiate a process. In most cases, that process is the wrong one. Coercive control surfaces most often through performance reviews and absence management, not through disclosure. By the time organisations recognise what they are dealing with, they are already managing the consequences of having missed it. This piece examines where that gap sits, and what it means for FCA-regulated firms operating under SMCR.

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Domestic Abuse and the Workplace: What Employers Still Do Not See

66% of employees affected by domestic abuse do not tell their employer. Not because the abuse is not serious, because they do not trust the response they will get. Drawing on lived experience and sector data, this piece sets out what a genuine workplace response actually looks like, and why legal duty, business cost, and basic human decency all point in the same direction.

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