She had never heard of “economic abuse”, nor even “domestic abuse”, although she was certainly living with it. The note read: “Ask the master before helping yourself.”Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, the founder of the charity Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA), was instrumental in getting a definition of economic abuse included, but she says it doesn’t go far enough. “The bill doesn’t criminalise economic abuse in and of itself, which is what we wanted,” she says. “Speaking to survivors, economic abuse just threaded through everything,” she says. It found that one in five people in the general population have experienced economic abuse, 60% of them women.

Source: The Guardian February 05, 2019 11:26 UTC