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Homicide Timeline Webinars for Social Housing Providers

03/11/2025

'Possibly the best online event I have attended' - Housing Director and Board Member. Barrister, Sarah Ellis, presents webinars on the Homicide Timeline in collaboration with Addressing Domestic Abuse and Dr Kelly Henderson.

Social housing providers have a unique opportunity to tackle domestic abuse and coercive control in their communities. This is because housing professionals frequently come across the same controlling people, gravitating from one vulnerable tenant to the next, and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake across their stock.

The Intimate Partner Homicide Timeline tells us that controlling people are serial and repeat perpetrators. Consequently, housing staff are often the first professionals to be aware the controlling person has met a new partner and are best placed to start safeguarding measures and information gathering at the earliest opportunity.

Furthermore, there are other steps housing professionals can take at each stage of the Homicide Timeline, including whether a DVDS (Clare's Law) request should be made, updating internal policies and procedures around adding new partners as joint tenants and taking protective measures when a tenant leaves a coercively controlling relationship.

The first 5 stages of the Timeline track the escalating risk and threat of controlling people in the vast majority of coercively controlling relationships. Our training, which is specially designed for housing providers, defines coercive control and stalking, shows how controlling patterns become introduced and enforced in relationships and also identify key risk markers that housing professionals should be aware of. It also contains numerous practical tips for busy housing professionals, helping them to identify the high risk cases.

With a background in Housing Law and having represented social landlords solely for 8 years when running her own firm, Sarah Ellis can provide training in this area to your teams. For further information please contact us via the enquiry form or at info@homicidetimeline.co.uk