🟣 Our Campaigning
Campaigning for Change. Standing for Justice.
1VAA is working to reform broken systems, amplify survivor voices, and build safer futures for families affected by abuse.
Our campaigns are grounded in lived experience and driven by a single purpose: to make protection, fairness, and compassion the norm, not the exception.
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💜 Our Mission
“Our top mission is simple: to help victims of abuse build safer, stronger, better lives.”
Founded by survivors for survivors, One Voice Against Abuse (1VAA) began as a campaign for change, and has become a nationwide movement for reform.
We believe that by confronting the failures of the current systems and giving survivors a platform to be heard, we can achieve real, lasting transformation in how our society responds to abuse.
🌍 Why We Campaign
Recognising What’s Broken
Across the UK, thousands of families encounter a system that too often retraumatises those it’s meant to protect. Family court secrecy, inconsistent social worker training, and poor coordination between agencies leave many victims feeling unheard and unsafe.
Building Better Systems
We are collaborating with professionals, charities, and policymakers to design realistic, compassionate reforms, centred on trauma awareness, transparency, and accountability.
Raising Awareness Early
We believe prevention starts with education. Our campaigns promote age-appropriate learning about respect, relationships, and safeguarding in schools, colleges, and communities nationwide.
🔑 Our Campaign Areas
Each campaign tackles a specific issue that prevents survivors from being protected and heard.
Click below to explore each one in depth:
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Transparency in Family Courts – Ending secrecy and ensuring decisions truly serve children’s best interests.
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Reforming Social Services Training – Equipping professionals with the trauma-informed skills they need to support, not separate, families.
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Education & Prevention in Schools – Embedding abuse awareness and healthy relationships into PHSE and teacher training.
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Mental Health & Family Support – Improving early access to therapy, crisis care, and long-term wellbeing services.
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Domestic Violence Awareness – Challenging myths, increasing understanding, and breaking the cycle of control and fear.
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Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation – Strengthening safeguarding and ensuring no disclosure is ever dismissed.
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Safer Contact Centres – Redesigning environments that prioritise children’s comfort and safety, improving training for all contact support workers in trauma informed awareness, safeguarding and DASH.
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Supported Foster Homes – Promoting family-based care and ending unnecessary removals from loving homes.
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Unified National Registers – Expanding Claire’s Law and Sarah’s Law into a connected, nationwide safeguarding system, supporting the national perpetrator register.
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✊ Our Impact So Far
“1VAA began in 2016 as a group of survivors demanding reform at Westminster.”
Since then, our team has worked tirelessly to bring attention to the hidden struggles of families affected by abuse.
We’ve met with MPs, Police & Crime Commissioners, journalists, and safeguarding professionals, raising awareness through protests, briefings, training, and media outreach.
Our collective voice has already helped influence policy discussions and push forward conversations on family court transparency, domestic abuse training, and survivor-led support initiatives.
📊 Understanding the Issue
Abuse affects every community, regardless of age, background, or gender.
To create meaningful change, we must first face the scale of the problem:
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1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men experience domestic abuse in their lifetime.
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1 in 10 children experience neglect or physical abuse.
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Over 90% of children who are sexually abused know their abuser.
(Sources: ONS, NSPCC, WHO, 2024 reports)
These numbers represent real people, families, friends, neighbours.
Each statistic is a story that deserves safety, justice, and healing.
🤝 Collaboration & Solidarity
“Real change takes united voices.”
We work alongside other charities, advocacy groups, and safeguarding professionals to share knowledge, resources, and strategies.
Together, we aim to build a national network of trust, training, and transparency, so no victim faces the system alone.
If your organisation would like to collaborate, we welcome partnerships for education programmes, events, and outreach projects.
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💬 Get Involved
Change starts with you.
Join our growing community of advocates, volunteers, and supporters who believe that one voice can make a difference but many voices together can change everything.
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