I Feel Unsafe at Home
Get to the next safe step. You do not need to solve your whole life right now.
If someone may check your phone or browser, use a safer device if you can. The eye icon disguises this page and the arrow opens a neutral page. Neither action erases browser history or device activity.
Do this in order.
Do not try to solve everything at once. Start with immediate safety, then move forward one step at a time.
Focus on immediate safety
Move away from the person or situation creating the danger if you can do so without increasing the risk. Do not delay leaving in order to collect possessions.
Reach a safer place
A trusted person, police station, staffed public place or other location where you are not isolated may be safer than remaining alone with someone you fear.
Get emergency help when needed
Call 999 if there is immediate danger, violence, threats of serious harm or someone is preventing you from leaving safely.
Tell one safe person clearly
Use plain language such as: “I do not feel safe at home and I need help finding somewhere safe.”
Protect your destination
If the risk comes from a partner, ex-partner or family member, do not share your new location with them if that could put you at risk.
Use specialist and housing routes
Use the current GOV.UK domestic-abuse support page and, if you have nowhere safe to stay, contact your local council or housing authority about homelessness help.
Take only what matters now.
Do not.
- Do not confront an abusive person just to prove a point or collect evidence.
- Do not delay a safe exit for belongings.
- Do not tell an unsafe person where you are going if secrecy is important to your safety.
- Do not rely on the disguise or exit controls as a way of deleting browser history or device activity.
Use the route that matches the problem.
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