Frieda's Hub

Frieda's Hub is our resource centre for practitioners, where our tools, guides and research live. The Intersectional Risk Tracker Tool is open now, and we are rolling out the rest over the coming months.

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So much more to come

Frieda’s Hub opens fully on 20 November 2026. Tell us you are interested and we will let you know as each tool opens.

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What's available now

Three resources are ready to use today, and everything else is listed further down with the date it opens.

Intersectional Risk Tracker Tool (IRTT)

Tracks risk across the systems a survivor is living inside, so you can see how racism, poverty and immigration control shape danger.

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The Friedom Framework

Our six-level model with three navigational principles, drawn from our own research with racialised survivors.

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Our West Midlands research

Sexual assault and abuse among racialised communities in the West Midlands, with findings and recommendations.

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What's coming

Everything below is opening over the coming months, grouped by where it belongs in the Hub.

Risk and identification

Domestic Abuse, Stalking, Harassment and Honour-Based Violence and Abuse (DASH) CompanionWorks through all twenty-eight DASH questions with intersectional guidance and anti-racist practice checks, and produces a report for supervision.Coming soon
Intersectional Barriers CheckerA checklist of the structural barriers a survivor may be facing, for use when a safety plan keeps stalling.Coming soon
FGM safeguarding tools and guidanceGuidance and tools for recognising and responding to female genital mutilation in casework and in safeguarding decisions.Coming soon
SafeLives DASH risk checklistThe sector standard risk checklist our Companion works alongside, linked so practitioners can reach the original.Coming soon
We Are Frieda Screening ToolScreens a referral for risk, need and systemic harm at the point of contact, so cases are allocated accurately.Coming soon

Case management

Case management guidance: foundations, case pathway and glossaryThe thinking behind the Case Management Pack, the pathway a case follows, and the terms used throughout it.Coming soon
Case notes template (CM21) with the Seven Documentation Shifts aide memoireA case notes template built on the Seven Documentation Shifts, so records hold pattern, context and the survivor's own words.Coming soon
Case Documentation ToolAn interactive tool for building a case record that carries identity and structural context alongside the chronology.Coming soon
Seven Documentation Shifts: summarySeven changes to the way cases are written up, each one making the record more accurate and more useful later.Coming soon
Seven Documentation Shifts: full framework with worked examplesThe full framework with worked examples, showing the same case recorded poorly and then recorded well.Coming soon
Aide memoires for practitionersShort prompt sheets for use in the room, covering the questions that are easiest to lose under caseload pressure.Coming soon
CM1 Referral and first contact recordRecords the referral and the first contact, including who referred, what was said and what was agreed.Coming soon
CM2 Case intake formCaptures the full picture at intake, covering the survivor's circumstances, household, identity and immediate needs.Coming soon
CM3 Communication and access planRecords how a survivor wants to be contacted, and the access needs that must be met for support to work.Coming soon
CM4 Consent, confidentiality and information sharing agreementRecords consent and information sharing in writing, so the survivor knows what is shared and with whom.Coming soon
CM5 Sharing without consent: decision recordRecords a decision to share without consent, the legal basis for it, and what the survivor was told.Coming soon
CM6 Risk identification summarySummarises identified risk in one place, covering the person causing harm, the survivor and the systems involved.Coming soon
CM7 Pattern of abuse mapMaps the pattern of abuse over time, so coercion and control stay visible rather than lost between incidents.Coming soon
CM8 Structural barriers and needs assessmentAssesses the structural barriers shaping a survivor's options, covering money, status, housing, health and discrimination.Coming soon
CM9 Children and young people recordRecords the children in a household, what they have experienced, and the safeguarding decisions made about them.Coming soon
CM10 Counter-allegation and primary perpetrator checkA structured check for working out who the primary perpetrator is when counter-allegations have been made.Coming soon
CM11 Individualised safety and support plan (core)The core safety and support plan, written with the survivor and reviewed as their circumstances change.Coming soon
CM12 Options and advice recordRecords the options discussed and the advice given, so a survivor's decisions are evidenced and can be revisited.Coming soon
CM13 Support and advocacy planRecords what the advocacy will cover, who does what, and what the survivor wants from the work.Coming soon
CM14 Professional network and case contactsHolds every professional involved in a case, with their role and contact details, in one place.Coming soon
CM15 MARAC referral narrative and preparationPrepares a MARAC referral, covering the narrative, the evidence and what the survivor wants raised.Coming soon
CM16 MARAC and multi-agency action trackerTracks the actions agreed at MARAC and other multi-agency meetings, and whether they were actually done.Coming soon
CM17 Criminal justice trackerTracks a case through the criminal justice process, covering dates, decisions and the survivor's entitlements.Coming soon
CM18 Civil and family court trackerTracks civil and family proceedings, covering orders, hearings and the support a survivor needs at each stage.Coming soon
CM19 Immigration, NRPF and destitution trackerTracks immigration status, applications and destitution support, so nothing lapses while a case is open.Coming soon
CM20 Professional challenge and escalation recordRecords a challenge made to another agency, what was asked of them, and what happened afterwards.Coming soon
CM22 Cross-system chronologyBrings events across police, health, housing, children's services and immigration into a single chronology.Coming soon
CM23 Emergency contact recordHolds the emergency contacts and arrangements a survivor has agreed, ready for the moment they are needed.Coming soon
CM24 Case and risk reviewA structured review of the case and the risk, recording what has changed and what the plan is now.Coming soon
CM25 Supervision and case reflection recordRecords supervision discussions and reflection, including the decisions made and the support the practitioner needs.Coming soon
CM26 Case closure and exit planCloses a case properly, covering what was achieved, what remains open, and how a survivor comes back.Coming soon
CM27 Survivor-defined outcomes and feedbackRecords outcomes in the survivor's own terms, and what they say about the support they received.Coming soon
CM28 Follow-up contact recordRecords follow-up contact after closure, and anything suggesting a case should be reopened.Coming soon
Case Management Pack: all 28 forms, editable Word with licence to adaptAll twenty-eight forms as editable Word documents, with a licence to adapt them to your own service.Coming soon

Safety planning

Full intersectional safety and support planA safety and support plan accounting for immigration status, money, faith, family and community alongside physical safety.Coming soon
Safety planning with insecure immigration status or NRPFSafety planning where a survivor has insecure status or no recourse to public funds, including the options that remain open.Coming soon
Technology and online safety planA plan for the digital side of safety, covering devices, accounts, location sharing and the monitoring survivors often cannot see.Coming soon

Advocacy

Advocacy plan built on three branches of advocacyA planning template built on our three branches of advocacy, for agreeing what the work with a survivor will cover.Coming soon
Advocacy letter templatesLetter templates for the agencies advocates write to most, worded to hold those agencies to the duties they already carry.Coming soon
Professionals' meeting preparation sheetHow to prepare for a professionals' meeting, covering what to bring, what to ask and how to keep the survivor central.Coming soon
Institutional advocacy set: meeting templates, professionals' meetings, challenge and escalationThe full institutional advocacy set, covering meeting templates, professionals' meetings and the record of challenge and escalation.Coming soon

Harmful practices and specific contexts

Practice guide on so-called honour-based violence and abuse and forced marriagePractice guidance on so-called honour-based violence and abuse and forced marriage, covering identification, risk and safer responses.Coming soon
FGM Concern GuideWhat to do when there is a concern about FGM, covering the duty to report, the referral route and the conversation.Coming soon
Karma Nirvana honour-based abuse toolKarma Nirvana's identification tool for so-called honour-based violence and abuse, linked for practitioners who need a screening route.Coming soon

Perpetrators and counter-allegations

Counter-Allegations Prompt ToolA set of prompts for use when counter-allegations are made, so decisions follow the pattern of behaviour.Coming soon

Schools and young people

Adultification Reflection ToolA reflective tool for teams to test their own decisions for adultification bias, case by case.Coming soon
Briefing for designated safeguarding leadsA briefing for designated safeguarding leads on adultification and racialised harm, and what to change in school safeguarding practice.Coming soon

Frameworks and foundations

The Friedom Framework briefing 2026A written briefing covering the six levels, the three navigational principles and what services change when they apply them.Coming soon
The Friedom Framework diagramThe framework as a single image, for use in training slides, in supervision and in service design work.Coming soon
Our working definition of Black feminismHow We Are Frieda defines Black feminism, and what that definition asks of practice, of leadership and of accountability.Coming soon
House of EntrapmentShows how coercion and control close around a survivor over time, so teams recognise entrapment in the cases they hold.Coming soon

Schools and young people

Anatomy of AdultificationOur model treating adultification bias as a child protection concern, and what it asks of assessment and decision making.Coming soon

Perpetrators and counter-allegations

Power Base, Power Process, Power OutcomeA tool for reading where power comes from, how it gets used, and what it produces in a case.Coming soon

Organisational practice

Anti-oppressive service auditAn audit template for testing how anti-oppressive a service actually is, across policy, practice and governance.Coming soon
Freedom Outcomes framework for commissionersAn outcomes framework for commissioners, measuring freedom from harm rather than throughput and closure rates.Coming soon
The Shells of PowerAn interactive tool showing power as nested shells, from the individual outwards to policy.Coming soon
Intersectional and Black Feminist Leadership card decksPrinted card decks prompting intersectional and Black feminist thinking in supervision, in training and in team development.Coming soon

What the Hub is for

Everything here comes out of our own practice in the sector, our consultancy, survivor voice and our research. That is why the tools ask what they ask, and why they read risk through identity rather than around it.

Practice tools

Free to use in casework, in supervision and in team learning.

Guides and templates

Documents you can take with you, into your casework or into your organisation.

E-learning

Self-paced learning from the Frieda Training Academy, taken at whatever speed your caseload allows.

Most used

The Friedom Framework

Our own model, grown from our research with racialised victim-survivors of sexual violence and abuse in the West Midlands. It is how we read trauma and the handling of violence and abuse, across six levels of a survivor's life, with three navigational principles running through every one.

The Friedom Framework belongs to We Are Frieda CIC. If you would like to use it in training or in service delivery design, under licence, please contact us to talk.

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Upcoming sessions

One-hour online introductions to the Intersectional Risk Tracker Tool, with time for your questions.

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