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Nexus Publications: Reports, Strategies, Plans and Responses
If you’re interested in learning more about a specific topic related to sexual abuse and abusive relationships, check out our blog posts. If videos are more your thing, we have a collection of videos you can browse too.
Strategic Plans
Here you can find our current and past Strategic Plans. Our current Strategic Plan covers the period from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2026. This Strategy will guide the work of Nexus over the next three years, and represents our vision and commitment to empowering people, supporting recovery from sexual abuse and abusive relationships, breaking the cycle of sexual abuse and abusive relationships, informing policy and practice, influencing society, and being fit for purpose.
Select the Strategic Plan you’d like to view by clicking on the relevant item below.
Consultation Responses
Responding to relevant consultations is one of the ways we inform policy and practice and make sure the eradication of sexual abuse and abusive relationships is a political priority.
Select the response you would like to view by clicking on the relevant item below.
Draft Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy 2023-30
We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Department of Health and Justice Draft Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy for 2023-2030. This Draft Strategy has been developed following a Call for Views on a Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy and a Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, which ran from January to March 2022, these gathered information and recommendations from a range of public sector organisations, frontline services, individuals, and other stakeholder engagement groups.
Ending Violence Against Women and Girls in Northern Ireland – Government Strategic Framework Consultation
We at Nexus welcome the Draft Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls, in Northern Ireland. Currently Northern Ireland is the only jurisdiction within the UK and Ireland without a strategic framework and operational plan to end violence against women and girls despite the high prevalence rates reported. Therefore, we recognise the commitment of the Northern Ireland Executive in mandating its development.
Nexus is proud to have played a role in shaping the Draft Strategy and Foundational Action Plan as part of the co-design team. This opportunity allowed us to amplify the voices of our service users and contribute our professional expertise to help craft the framework’s ambitions and key priorities. Ending all forms of gender-based violence is a key priority for Nexus as the cultural, legal, economic and political drivers that contribute to it also enable the perpetuation of sexual abuse and abusive relationships. We recognise that eliminating these drivers requires a whole societal approach, meaning we can all play our part.
Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) Consultation
As providers of Relationship and Sexuality Education as well as a therapeutic intervention service for people impacted by sexual abuse and abusive relationships, Nexus welcomes these measures to mandate comprehensive, continuous, and fact-based RSE in all schools. Our organisation strongly believes, based on our work, research, and external evidence, that educating and supporting our children and young people is key to promoting healthy relationships in all areas of life.
In our response we emphasised the importance of mandating fact-based, scientific, and comprehensive relationship and sexuality education alongside a robust monitoring and evaluation process to support continuous learning for all students across Northern Ireland, regardless of the school they attend. We also highlighted the fact that a lot of our young people are left unsupported, disappointed, and disadvantaged by the current state of RSE in schools.
By providing a fully comprehensive programme we increase the potential that every young person is confident in their ability to engage in healthy and consensual relationships and intimacy, to support and advocate for themselves and their peers and friends, and to challenge abusive behaviours. Nexus looks forward to further stakeholder engagement and participating in informing, supporting, and raising awareness of healthy relationships.
Consultation Responses
Responding to relevant consultations is one of the ways we inform policy and practice and make sure the eradication of sexual abuse and abusive relationships is a political priority.
Select the response you would like to view by clicking on the relevant item below.
Draft Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy 2023-30
We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Department of Health and Justice Draft Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy for 2023-2030. This Draft Strategy has been developed following a Call for Views on a Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy and a Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, which ran from January to March 2022, these gathered information and recommendations from a range of public sector organisations, frontline services, individuals, and other stakeholder engagement groups.
Learn more about our response to the Draft Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy 2023-2030
Ending Violence Against Women and Girls in Northern Ireland – Government Strategic Framework Consultation
We at Nexus welcome the Draft Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls, in Northern Ireland. Currently Northern Ireland is the only jurisdiction within the UK and Ireland without a strategic framework and operational plan to end violence against women and girls despite the high prevalence rates reported. Therefore, we recognise the commitment of the Northern Ireland Executive in mandating its development.
Nexus is proud to have played a role in shaping the Draft Strategy and Foundational Action Plan as part of the co-design team. This opportunity allowed us to amplify the voices of our service users and contribute our professional expertise to help craft the framework’s ambitions and key priorities. Ending all forms of gender-based violence is a key priority for Nexus as the cultural, legal, economic and political drivers that contribute to it also enable the perpetuation of sexual abuse and abusive relationships. We recognise that eliminating these drivers requires a whole societal approach, meaning we can all play our part.
Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) Consultation
As providers of Relationship and Sexuality Education as well as a therapeutic intervention service for people impacted by sexual abuse and abusive relationships, Nexus welcomes these measures to mandate comprehensive, continuous, and fact-based RSE in all schools. Our organisation strongly believes, based on our work, research, and external evidence, that educating and supporting our children and young people is key to promoting healthy relationships in all areas of life.
In our response we emphasised the importance of mandating fact-based, scientific, and comprehensive relationship and sexuality education alongside a robust monitoring and evaluation process to support continuous learning for all students across Northern Ireland, regardless of the school they attend. We also highlighted the fact that a lot of our young people are left unsupported, disappointed, and disadvantaged by the current state of RSE in schools.
By providing a fully comprehensive programme we increase the potential that every young person is confident in their ability to engage in healthy and consensual relationships and intimacy, to support and advocate for themselves and their peers and friends, and to challenge abusive behaviours. Nexus looks forward to further stakeholder engagement and participating in informing, supporting, and raising awareness of healthy relationships.
Annual Reports
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Other Publications
From time to time, we may commission or participate in publications outside of our usual reporting methods. When we do, they’re uploaded to our website and available for anyone to view.
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Keeping your information safe
Nexus needs to keep information to enable us to offer counselling, training, volunteer opportunities and fundraising. Some of the information we keep is of a sensitive nature, especially information on our clients. To ensure that information is kept safe and only used in a proper manner we have updated our polices, procedures and produced a comprehensive privacy notice to ensure that we comply with GDPR.
Legal information
Nexus is registered with the Information Commissioners Office (Reg. No. Z3266690) are we are legally obliged to look after your information.
Northern Ireland Rape Crisis Association trading as Nexus is a registered charity in Northern Ireland. NIC102558
NEXUS is recognised by the HMRC as a charity XN46002
It is a company called Northern Ireland Rape Crisis Association, Company Registration No. NI 21120
Registered Office is 59 Malone Road, Belfast, BT9 6SA
BACP Accredited Service. BACP Ref No. 101852
Registered with the Fundraising Regulator
