Lasting Support Responds to Domestic Homicide Project Report

The fifth annual report from the national Domestic Homicide Project, which works across England and Wales, was published in April 2026. Within the report, the first case of a suspected suicide following teenage relationship abuse (TRA) under the age of 18 had been recorded. This was reported alongside 150 suspected victim suicides following domestic abuse (SVSDA).

At Lasting Support, we create spaces where families can talk. Where mothers who have survived abuse can begin to heal. Where children growing up in the shadow of that abuse can find safety. We do this work because we know what happens when those spaces don’t exist: patterns of abuse get repeated. They get carried from one generation to the next. They get normalised. And young people, especially young girls, are left with nowhere to turn.

We also know what is happening online. The content young people are consuming is becoming more and more violent, more and more misogynistic. It is shaping how young boys understand relationships and how young girls understand their place in them. We see the impact of this every single week in our work.

This cannot keep being treated as someone else’s problem.

Payzee Mahmod, Intervention Lead, says: “When I heard this news, I thought about the girls I know. The ones in our sessions. The ones whose mums are survivors. She deserved a space to talk. She deserved someone to listen. So do all of our girls.”

Safe spaces save lives; they must be adequately and sustainably funded. 

Lasting Support works with diverse communities across London, delivering the Building Bridges programme for non-abusive parents and the Sporting Souls programme for young people.