Intersectional Risk Tracker Tool
How to use this tool
Select each factor row to open its rating panel. Assign a Low, Medium, or High risk level based on evidence, survivor voice, and professional judgement. Record the survivor's own words and your notes in the text fields provided.
What the scores mean
The purpose is to show where to focus case management and safety planning. Patterns of Mediums and Highs highlight where risks accumulate and where advocacy is most urgently required.
Survivor voice
Survivors can highlight which risks feel most urgent or unsafe to them, even where this differs from the professional rating. Survivor voice must meaningfully influence safety planning, advocacy, and decision-making.
Relationship to DASH
This tool is not designed to replace the DASH risk checklist. It is intended to run alongside case management, open conversations about intersectional risks, and strengthen the overall quality of assessment and advocacy.
Understanding risk categories
Every act of abuse, irrespective of its nature, is severe and represents a serious violation of human rights. When factors are rated Low, Medium, or High risk, this does not downplay the severity or impact of any form of abuse.
The risk rating refers not to the legitimacy or severity of the abuse itself, but to the potential for escalation and the immediate physical and emotional safety of the survivor. High risk signifies that immediate and assertive interventions are necessary due to the likelihood of severe harm or life-threatening danger.
Intersectionality and the matrix of domination
The factors within the IRTT operate within the broader framework of the matrix of domination. None of the factors exist in isolation; they interact with, influence, and exacerbate each other, contributing to a complex web of discrimination and abuse rooted in structural violence.
Measurement and interpreting scores
Each intersectional factor is scored on a simple scale:
Scores may show patterns but cannot show absolutes. Risk is not a fixed number; it changes with context, escalation, and intersection. Narrative scoring is as important as numbers.
Professional judgement and overriding scores
Scores are a starting point for professional judgement. Where expertise, instinct, or safeguarding duty points to a higher level of danger than the recorded score reflects, practitioners should override or elevate accordingly. Certain indicators immediately elevate a case to High Harm and High Risk, including strangulation, reproductive coercion, multiple perpetrators, imminent FGM/C and threats to kill.
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