Children’s social care faces “unprecedented change”. How does a director of children’s social care navigate the challenges of competing reforms, while centring prevention and response to domestic abuse? Dan Ruaux, Director of Children, Young People and Learning at West Sussex County Council discusses this the latest RIVA Conversations series.

In the first of our RIVA Conversations series bringing insight from across the VAWG system, Dr Laura Knight of the Youth Endowment Fund unpicks why a public health approach hasn’t yet been applied to VAWG, and makes the case for a What Works Centre to drive evidence-informed practice.

Can devolution shift power, not just policy? RIVA considers how the ambition to shift power set out in Rewiring the State will affect government’s ambition to halve violence against women and girls.

Can capitalising frontline services be the answer to funding instability and insufficiency? RIVA launches a survey of the women’s sector.

The second in RIVA’s annual Civil Service World series tracking system realities against government’s ambition to halve violence against women and girls.

Examining the structural conditions limiting long-term reform across the VAWG system, including fragmentation, weak infrastructure, and limited capacity for continuous improvement.

Exploring how social investment could strengthen prevention, safe accommodation, and long-term system capacity across the VAWG sector.

Exploring how risk became the organising logic of the domestic abuse system, and the case for a more proportionate model centred on survivor capacity and long-term safety.

Evidencing how the Contextualised Engagement Model (CEM) can improve outcomes and reduce system demand in some of the highest harm domestic abuse cases.

RIVA’s first annual Civil Service World article, arguing that halving violence against women and girls will require a radical rethink of the current system, including a much stronger focus on perpetrators, prevention, and long-term system reform