Our impact
Our Outcomes
The four outcomes the partnership is working towards across the East of England.
What we want to change
Better health and wellbeing
People can reach specialist services earlier and get the right response at the right time.
Fairer access
Where someone lives, who they are or their circumstances should not affect whether they can reach specialist services.
Better joined-up services
Organisations work more closely together, with clearer pathways and more consistent standards.
Stronger services for the future
We are building a regional approach shaped by survivor voice, with lived experience informing future services, funding, commissioning and long-term specialist provision.
Our five-year ambition
Survivors at the Centre is a five-year programme. These are the changes we hope to make over the life of the project. Our ambition is to make it easier for survivors to reach specialist sexual violence and abuse services, wherever they live. We want survivors to have clear information, more choice and a more joined-up experience, without having to understand complicated systems or repeat what has happened unnecessarily.
- Better health and wellbeing
- Fairer access
- Better joined-up services
- Stronger services for the future
Reaching the right specialist service earlier can make a real difference.
We want survivors to have a safe and respectful first contact, with time to talk about what matters and understand the choices available. First Contact Navigators will help make the next steps clearer and connect survivors with specialist services when they choose to access them.
Where a survivor lives, who they are or their circumstances should not make it harder to reach specialist services.
Over the five years, we want to understand where barriers exist and work with survivors, local communities and specialist organisations to make access fairer and more welcoming across the region.
Finding the right service should not mean going from one organisation to another or repeatedly explaining what has happened.
Our ambition is to create clearer pathways between specialist organisations, with smoother handovers, shared standards and better communication so survivors experience a more joined-up response.
Survivor voice and lived experience will be an important part of how the programme grows and develops.
Over the five years, we will bring together survivor insight, frontline experience, service information and independent evaluation. What we learn will help strengthen specialist services and inform future decisions about funding, commissioning and long-term provision.