Publications
A Guide for organisations thinking about how to address economic abuse. Includes examples and guidance for workplaces and organisations in the financial, utilities, government, legal and gaming sectors. This project is a collaboration with Insight Exchange drawing on insights from people with lived experience of economic abuse (also called financial abuse), in the context of an intimate partner relationship.
Churchill Report 2021
Rebecca Glenn’s 2019 Churchill Fellowship to study service responses to women experiencing or escaping domestic financial abuse USA, Canada, UK.
A step by step guide for people experiencing economic abuse who want to change their situation. This document brings together the Fact Sheets: First Steps to Economic Safety and Next Steps to Economic Safety in one document.
Submissions
Economic abuse in Australia: Perceptions and experience
This new report from CWES outlines the findings of a nationally representative survey on economic abuse in Australia which finds many people aren’t confident to explain it, misunderstand what it is, and don’t know where to seek support.
Statement on the National Summit on Women’s Safety
CWES calls for economic abuse to be a focus of the new National Action Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Children and makes 8 recommendations that can be taken up by the federal government and organisations across the country.
Letter to Federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights on Parents Next 2021
CWES calls for ParentsNext to be redesigned as a voluntary program and endorses Domestic Violence Victoria and Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria’s submission calling for family violence to be grounds for permanent exemption from its participation requirements and for ParentsNext to be removed from the Targeted Compliance Framework.
Submission to NSW Joint Select Committee on Coercive Control 2021
CWES calls for economic abuse to be recognised in new domestic violence legislation in NSW incorporating coercive control.