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1. Placing safety first: CAADA’s approach to supporting vulnerable media case studies

3. Provide policy, training, support to many smaller charities, as well as other professionals involved in support work

4. No direct ‘victim’ beneficiaries

6. Organisation ‘wary’ of media

7. Organisations we work with ‘wary’ of media

8. Case studies ‘wary’ of media!

9. Domestic abuse – difficult to get coverage!

12. Survivor’s name changed to protect identities and increase safety.

13. Perpetrator’s name changed to increase safety and prevent defamation.

14. Frontline domestic abuse professional’s name changed to protect identities and increase safety.

15. No detailed information about the residential location revealed.

16. Small details changed to further protect identities.

17. Survivor case studies choose the media work they would like to undertake – from written case studies only to radio and television work.

18. Photography or filming only with survivor case study consent, and no identifying features.

19. Telephone interviews – three way conference phone set up, and survivors offered ‘read backs’.

20. Spend direct time with each survivor, building up an ongoing relationship over a period of time, providing media training and accompanying to interviews.

23. Bank of good quality case studies who have grown in confidence and feel they’re ‘giving something back’

24. Service managers trust us and are seeing value of media work

25. Coverage has hugely increased from 0 to 110 pieces of coverage in last quarter, 10 of which featured detailed case study interviews/filming, including Newsnight, The Times, Community Care magazine, BBC Breakfast

27. Develop guidelines

28. Build trust all round

29. Be clear with journalists about boundaries