Our research
Rising Sun is a learning organisation, recognising the importance of understanding the latest research, listening to survivors, evaluating our data and implementing changes. Through collaboration with survivors and professionals partners we develop services, share knowledge and expertise, to ensure that we take each possible step towards our vision.
You can learn more about Rising Sun’s research and reports below.
Child and Young Survivors of Domestic Abuse: A Trauma-Informed Approach for Health Professionals
In 2025, Rising Sun was commissioned by Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse to create guidance for health professionals on how to respond appropriately to child and young survivors of domestic abuse.
The guidance ‘Child and Young Survivors of Domestic Abuse: A Trauma-Informed Approach for Health Professionals’ is for anyone working directly with children and families, who may be impacted by domestic abuse, and particularly useful for professionals working within health, social care or education.
It aims to provide a framework for recognising signs of abuse, making safe enquiry and responding to disclosures. It also provides an overview of how children are affected by coercive control-based domestic abuse, what the long term impacts may be and explores how to promote and support recovery.
To support the guidance, we also co-produced this short animated film with a group of young survivors, informing professionals how they want to be supported following experiences of domestic abuse.
Ensuring all children and young people affected by domestic abuse have access to services that meet their needs.
In 2022, Rising Sun was commissioned by Kent County Council to develop a greater understanding of how best to support children and young people impacted by domestic abuse, understanding what children want from support and how agencies can better respond.
Through gaining narratives from children’s perspectives around what support should be offered and what this should look like, the research provides in depth knowledge of what the key issues are for children and young people.
The insightful interviews offer a set of themes around designing areas of support from a specialist domestic abuse service, enabling children and young people to be active partners in service development.
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Every day victim-survivors are suffering the trauma of domestic abuse by living in an unliveable situation, feeling trapped and unbelieved.
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