Judith Vickress

Trustee

After an eight year career as a family lawyer in Ludlow, Shropshire, I moved into the charity sector where I have remained for the last 25 years. I worked with Herefordshire Women's Aid (which became West Mercia Women's Aid - WMWA) in various frontline roles supporting survivors of domestic abuse, later working strategically to set up multi agency arrangements across Herefordshire. After two years with Worcestershire Rape Crisis I began working with a national organisation working to implement system change models across the UK. Here I worked with strategic leads in local authorities, policing, health and domestic abuse specialist services to drive change in policy and practice. For the last five years I have worked for Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse, a charity based in London but working nationally implement a coordinated community response to domestic abuse. I have headed up projects designed to improve the housing sectors response to domestic abuse building and managing a team to role out the projects across the UK. I have led on the policy work, chairing a national group of policy leads across the housing, homelessness and domestic abuse sectors, working to influence government on housing and domestic abuse policies. In 2022 I was seconded into the Office of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner in the practice team working across England and Wales to engage key regional strategic leads and build relationships across the countries with the Commissioner. I am now beginning work as a freelance domestic abuse consultant.

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