Gender-based violence: how to help women with learning disabilities

Women with learning disabilities are particularly vulnerable to abuse and nurses need to offer support and identify and challenge what is happening to them

• Gender-based violence against women with learning disabilities is under-reported and services have failed to provide adequate support
• An Equally Safe strategy and new report is trying to prevent and eradicate violence against women and girls
• Women with learning disabilities may not be aware that what is happening to them is abuse, nurses can explain in a person-centred way and signpost them to help.

How can you report that you have been subjected to gender-based violence, if you do not understand what it is and you are unaware that what