Insights
Explore our analysis, policy papers, and commentary exploring the structural conditions shaping violence against women and girls, including investment, system reform, infrastructure, prevention, and innovation.
“Moving away from risk dominance is challenging, but necessary”
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.
Andy Burnham: Systems Change Leader?
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.
What’s Blocking VAWG System Change?
Examining the structural conditions limiting long-term reform across the VAWG system, including fragmentation, weak infrastructure, and limited capacity for continuous improvement.
Intractable High-Risk (MARAC) Cases: A Way Forward
Evidencing how the Contextualised Engagement Model (CEM) can improve outcomes and reduce system demand in some of the highest harm domestic abuse cases.
‘The boldest step yet’: Can the government meet its ambition to halve violence against women and girls?
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