For Employers & Workplaces
Helping you extend the support you already provide.
When an employee is experiencing abuse, your organisation can play an important role in helping her remain safe, supported and able to work.
Harbour Lights works alongside employers to strengthen that support.
We provide practical, evidence-informed information that can help women understand the abuse they are experiencing, recognise how it may be affecting different areas of their lives, explore ways to respond and find appropriate specialist support.
Your organisation continues to provide the workplace support it knows best. We bring additional knowledge and resources that can help you support the woman behind the employee.
Explore how we can work together
When Abuse Doesn’t Stay Outside Work
Abuse can follow a woman into the workplace.
What is happening outside work can affect what happens inside it. Abuse may affect an employee’s concentration, attendance, wellbeing, finances or ability to manage her working day. In some circumstances, an abusive current or former partner may also interfere directly with her employment or professional reputation.
For the people supporting her at work, these effects may be difficult to understand without knowing what is happening behind them.
Harbour Lights can help your teams understand more about the abuse an employee may be experiencing, how it can affect her at work and how they can support her, while giving the woman herself information to help her navigate the wider situation.
Abuse can affect many areas of a woman’s life
These issues can be interconnected and several may occur at the same time.
The Partnership Model
Helping you support the employee. Helping her navigate the abuse.
For Your Teams
Help the people supporting her understand what she may be experiencing.
Harbour Lights can provide HR, wellbeing teams and line managers with information about post-separation abuse, how different forms of abuse can affect working life, and what may help when supporting an employee.
This can help them:
- Recognise how abuse may be affecting an employee at work
- Better understand behaviours or circumstances that may otherwise be difficult to interpret
- Have more informed and appropriate conversations
- Understand where workplace support may help
- Signpost employees to relevant information and specialist services
For The Woman
Give her information she can use beyond the workplace.
Harbour Lights provides practical, evidence-informed information that can help an employee:
- Understand the abuse she may be experiencing
- Recognise tactics and patterns
- Understand how different problems may be connected
- Explore possible ways to respond
- Find relevant specialist support
- Return to the information privately, when she needs it
Together
A more informed workplace response, with more support available to the woman.
Lumina
When every woman’s situation is different, the information can be too.
An employee may be experiencing economic abuse. Another may be dealing with interference at work, legal proceedings and reputational abuse at the same time.
A single standard resource will not always reflect the combination of problems a woman is facing.
Lumina enables an appropriate member of your team to identify the particular behaviours and issues an employee is experiencing and bring together relevant Harbour Lights information around her situation.
Instead of giving every employee the same information, Lumina can help you provide a bespoke guide focused on what that woman is actually experiencing.
Identify
What is she experiencing?
Connect
Which issues, tactics and patterns may be relevant?
Compile
Bring together relevant Harbour Lights information.
Create
Her bespoke guide.
Built Around Your Workplace
The right support may be a combination of what we offer.
Every organisation is different. Your existing policies, employee-support arrangements, workforce and priorities will shape what is most useful.
Harbour Lights can work with you to understand the support you already provide and where we can add to it. We can then bring together the right combination of our information, resources and services to create an approach that fits your organisation and the women you support.
That might include information for employees, resources for line managers, deeper knowledge for HR and wellbeing teams, access to Harbour Lights Guides and the Knowledge Library, or content developed around a particular issue affecting your workforce.
Harbour Lights works alongside your existing provision, helping you extend the information and resources available to your teams and the women they support.
The aim is not to fit your organisation around our products. It is to use the parts of Harbour Lights that can add the most value to the support you already provide.
Stronger support.
Brighter futures.
What You Already Provide
Policies, people and support in the workplace.
- Domestic-abuse policies
- HR and management support
- Line managers
- EAP provision
- Wellbeing support
- Specialist referrals
What Harbour Lights Can Add
Information and resources to extend your support.
- Resources for employees
- Information for line managers
- Knowledge for HR and wellbeing teams
- Access to Guides and the Knowledge Library
- Specialist content on particular topics
- Training and awareness support
A Solution Built Around Your Workplace
The right combination of support for your teams and the women they support.
- More informed and confident workplace support
- Employees with greater access to the information they need
- A stronger, more supportive workplace culture
How We Can Work Together
Add the information that fits the needs of your employees.
Give employees access to specialist Guides
An employee experiencing economic, legal or reputational abuse can access practical information focused on the particular challenge she is navigating.
Your organisation can fund access so the resource is available to employees without charge.
Explore the Guide SeriesConnect employees with trusted support
The Harbour Lights Support Directory helps women identify relevant organisations and practical sources of support.
As our geographic coverage expands, planned resources will also help women identify appropriate support across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, alongside information addressing barriers faced by women with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF).
Explore Support ResourcesGive employees somewhere to explore further
The Knowledge Library brings together research, specialist guidance and practical information about post-separation abuse, allowing women and professionals to explore particular issues in greater depth.
Explore the Knowledge LibraryDevelop support around a particular need
If your organisation is encountering a specific challenge, from economic abuse or workplace interference to reputational abuse, we can explore how Harbour Lights’ research and resources could complement your existing employee-support programme.
Talk to usKnowledge / Credibility
Information you can be confident putting in front of employees.
Specialist knowledge. Carefully sourced. Made practical.
Harbour Lights draws together peer-reviewed research, government and statutory guidance, information from regulators and public bodies, specialist domestic-abuse organisations, professional sources, primary research and lived experience.
We review and synthesise that material and translate complex evidence into clear, practical information organised around the situations women may actually encounter.
The sources underpinning our work are recorded in a Master Evidence Register, maintaining a traceable connection between the information we provide and its underlying evidence.
Reviewed Every January
Our Knowledge Library is reviewed and updated annually each January, incorporating relevant new research and guidance, reviewing existing material and identifying areas requiring further development.
This means Harbour Lights is intended to be a maintained source of information, rather than a collection of resources published once and left unchanged.
Let’s Work Together
What would help you better support your employees?
Every workplace has different people, policies and existing support.
Tell us what you already provide, where you are seeing a gap, or what you would like to make available to employees.
We can explore where Harbour Lights can sit alongside you and add value.
Talk to Harbour Lights Community
More support.
Brighter futures.