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Domestic abuse to be theme of CIH president’s term
Alison Inman, the incoming Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) president, has announced that domestic abuse will be the defining theme of her term.
Ms Inman, who takes up the role of CIH president in September, announced the news at a session on domestic abuse at Housing 2017, the CIH conference and exhibition in Manchester.
She said: “The situation has not got better – services have improved but the instances of abuse and the different ways in which we abuse each other have changed and become more sophisticated.”
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She added: “We really need to sort [domestic abuse] out and I’m going to spend a year having some conversations about that.”
Polly Neate, chief executive of Women’s Aid, who will join Shelter as its chief executive in August, echoed Ms Inman’s call for more to be done on domestic abuse.
During the session she said that women have borne 85% of the financial burden of tax and benefit changes since 2010. She urged the government to do more to assess the disproportionate impact reforms have on domestically abused women.
“We must have a gender impact assessment of welfare reforms before they are implemented. We are starting to see it, but there needs to be more of it.”
