9. Summary

Gender based violence can be a difficult issue to understand and for health and social care students, it can be a challenge to know what your role is in supporting people. Having worked through this resource, you should be equipped with some important information to help you. You are not expected to be an expert in gender based violence. As a student your role is to have some awareness of the problem, to be able to talk about it, (if it is safe and appropriate to do so) and always report concerns about a person’s safety or wellbeing to a mentor or registered practitioner.