Domestic abuse - how PES can save lives

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How the Swedish PES won an award for its work finding domestic abuse

How Arbetsformedlingen, the Swedish PES, trains its front-line staff to look for symptoms of domestic abuse in an online one-hour training session.

When the Swedish PES started this simple scheme to train its frontline staff to look for abuse among their job-seeking clients, they were amazed to find that their own frontline staff also came forward as victims of abuse themselves.

Article about the Award, the swedish PES won
The original Podcast of the swedish PES
Webpage of the swedish PES

Åsa Frostfeldt

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