Institute For Addressing Strangulation
@institutefas.bsky.social
IFAS works to increase awareness of risks associated with strangulation.
There is no safe way to strangle.
Website: ifas.org.uk
Info for victims: https://shorturl.at/RpdR8
There is no safe way to strangle.
Website: ifas.org.uk
Info for victims: https://shorturl.at/RpdR8
Have you signed up to our conference yet?
Children and Young People: Could Strangulation Be ‘Choking’ Future Generations?
This is a valuable event for anyone working with children and young people affected by abuse, violence, or trauma.
Book your place: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
Children and Young People: Could Strangulation Be ‘Choking’ Future Generations?
This is a valuable event for anyone working with children and young people affected by abuse, violence, or trauma.
Book your place: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Have you signed up to our conference yet?
Children and Young People: Could Strangulation Be ‘Choking’ Future Generations?
This is a valuable event for anyone working with children and young people affected by abuse, violence, or trauma.
Book your place: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
Children and Young People: Could Strangulation Be ‘Choking’ Future Generations?
This is a valuable event for anyone working with children and young people affected by abuse, violence, or trauma.
Book your place: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
Excited to announce that Kate Brown, Chief Crown Prosecutor at CPS will be speaking at our conference Children and Young People: Could strangulation be ‘choking’ future generations?
Excited to hear from her as well as MP Jess Phillips
Book your place here! ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
Excited to hear from her as well as MP Jess Phillips
Book your place here! ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Excited to announce that Kate Brown, Chief Crown Prosecutor at CPS will be speaking at our conference Children and Young People: Could strangulation be ‘choking’ future generations?
Excited to hear from her as well as MP Jess Phillips
Book your place here! ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
Excited to hear from her as well as MP Jess Phillips
Book your place here! ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
Please share our conference with any professionals working with young people/ children
We want as many professionals in the room as possible as we discuss how we can come together to address risks around strangulation.
Find out more: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
View our updated agenda!
We want as many professionals in the room as possible as we discuss how we can come together to address risks around strangulation.
Find out more: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
View our updated agenda!
September 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Please share our conference with any professionals working with young people/ children
We want as many professionals in the room as possible as we discuss how we can come together to address risks around strangulation.
Find out more: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
View our updated agenda!
We want as many professionals in the room as possible as we discuss how we can come together to address risks around strangulation.
Find out more: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
View our updated agenda!
In November we will come together to explore the impact of strangulation on children/ young people, ask urgent questions, share bold ideas & imagine a future where children are safe, heard & protected.
We hope to see you there! Make sure you have booked your place!
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
We hope to see you there! Make sure you have booked your place!
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
September 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
In November we will come together to explore the impact of strangulation on children/ young people, ask urgent questions, share bold ideas & imagine a future where children are safe, heard & protected.
We hope to see you there! Make sure you have booked your place!
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
We hope to see you there! Make sure you have booked your place!
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
We will be hearing about the criminal justice response to strangulation & those impacted by strangulation.
Exploring how porn shapes young peoples perceptions & role of educators.
Launching EXCLUSIVE data on UK prevalence of strangulation in sex.
Book your place: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
Exploring how porn shapes young peoples perceptions & role of educators.
Launching EXCLUSIVE data on UK prevalence of strangulation in sex.
Book your place: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
September 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We will be hearing about the criminal justice response to strangulation & those impacted by strangulation.
Exploring how porn shapes young peoples perceptions & role of educators.
Launching EXCLUSIVE data on UK prevalence of strangulation in sex.
Book your place: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
Exploring how porn shapes young peoples perceptions & role of educators.
Launching EXCLUSIVE data on UK prevalence of strangulation in sex.
Book your place: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
We are excited to announce we will be releasing a monthly #podcast. Over the last four years IFAS have published numerous reports on strangulation within sexual/ domestic violence & sex.This expertise can now be accessed through podcasts! Sign up to our newsletter to get an alert shorturl.at/Hvj5C
September 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
We are excited to announce we will be releasing a monthly #podcast. Over the last four years IFAS have published numerous reports on strangulation within sexual/ domestic violence & sex.This expertise can now be accessed through podcasts! Sign up to our newsletter to get an alert shorturl.at/Hvj5C
Our conference programme is published!
More additions to be added in due course... 👀
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
More additions to be added in due course... 👀
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
August 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Our conference programme is published!
More additions to be added in due course... 👀
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
More additions to be added in due course... 👀
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
This conference will be valuable for anyone working with #children and/or #young people across:
- #Education
- #Healthcare
- #Frontline support services
- Wider response to addressing #violence against women and girls #VAWG
#Strangulation #RHSE
Book now: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
- #Education
- #Healthcare
- #Frontline support services
- Wider response to addressing #violence against women and girls #VAWG
#Strangulation #RHSE
Book now: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
August 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This conference will be valuable for anyone working with #children and/or #young people across:
- #Education
- #Healthcare
- #Frontline support services
- Wider response to addressing #violence against women and girls #VAWG
#Strangulation #RHSE
Book now: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
- #Education
- #Healthcare
- #Frontline support services
- Wider response to addressing #violence against women and girls #VAWG
#Strangulation #RHSE
Book now: ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
Our conference will explore how you can use your role to address and prevent the risks around strangulation, understand the different contexts strangulation is taking place amongst young people and network with other professionals to share best practice.
August 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Our conference will explore how you can use your role to address and prevent the risks around strangulation, understand the different contexts strangulation is taking place amongst young people and network with other professionals to share best practice.
Don't miss out on our early bird rate. Available only for a few weeks! This conference will be valuable for anyone working with young people within:
- education
- healthcare
- front line support services
- wider response to addressing violence against women and girls
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
- education
- healthcare
- front line support services
- wider response to addressing violence against women and girls
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
July 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Don't miss out on our early bird rate. Available only for a few weeks! This conference will be valuable for anyone working with young people within:
- education
- healthcare
- front line support services
- wider response to addressing violence against women and girls
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
- education
- healthcare
- front line support services
- wider response to addressing violence against women and girls
ifas.org.uk/ifas-confere...
Join IFAS to explore the latest research and data on strangulation and what this tells us about the prevalence, experiences and understanding of strangulation within different contexts amongst young people.
#Conference #VAWG
Book your place here: fflm.ac.uk/event/ifas-c...
#Conference #VAWG
Book your place here: fflm.ac.uk/event/ifas-c...
July 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Join IFAS to explore the latest research and data on strangulation and what this tells us about the prevalence, experiences and understanding of strangulation within different contexts amongst young people.
#Conference #VAWG
Book your place here: fflm.ac.uk/event/ifas-c...
#Conference #VAWG
Book your place here: fflm.ac.uk/event/ifas-c...
Our survivors of strangulation webinar is fast approaching on 8th July. Make sure you have booked on. This webinar is FREE and you will hear first hand from survivors about their experiences and how professionals should respond.
Sign up NOW: fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
Sign up NOW: fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
July 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Our survivors of strangulation webinar is fast approaching on 8th July. Make sure you have booked on. This webinar is FREE and you will hear first hand from survivors about their experiences and how professionals should respond.
Sign up NOW: fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
Sign up NOW: fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
This webinar will delve into our our updated information leaflet we have produced in collaboration with our survivor group: ifas.org.uk/information-...
Webinar: Hear from survivors about what professionals need to know to support others! Sign up now fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
Webinar: Hear from survivors about what professionals need to know to support others! Sign up now fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
July 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This webinar will delve into our our updated information leaflet we have produced in collaboration with our survivor group: ifas.org.uk/information-...
Webinar: Hear from survivors about what professionals need to know to support others! Sign up now fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
Webinar: Hear from survivors about what professionals need to know to support others! Sign up now fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
Our response on Govt plan to criminalise strangulation in porn.
Increasingly young peoples sexual experiences are being informed by what they have viewed in pornography and this includes viewing acts of strangulation also referenced as “choking” within pornography.
ifas.org.uk/we-respond-t...
Increasingly young peoples sexual experiences are being informed by what they have viewed in pornography and this includes viewing acts of strangulation also referenced as “choking” within pornography.
ifas.org.uk/we-respond-t...
June 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Our response on Govt plan to criminalise strangulation in porn.
Increasingly young peoples sexual experiences are being informed by what they have viewed in pornography and this includes viewing acts of strangulation also referenced as “choking” within pornography.
ifas.org.uk/we-respond-t...
Increasingly young peoples sexual experiences are being informed by what they have viewed in pornography and this includes viewing acts of strangulation also referenced as “choking” within pornography.
ifas.org.uk/we-respond-t...
IFAS #FREE lunch & learn webinars are back by popular demand. Sign up to interact with the latest research on #Strangulation.
You can sign up to one, two or all three!
Survivors of Strangulation: shorturl.at/EbT38
SARC Strangulation Cases: shorturl.at/TfPBX
Clinical Guidelines: shorturl.at/84MU3
You can sign up to one, two or all three!
Survivors of Strangulation: shorturl.at/EbT38
SARC Strangulation Cases: shorturl.at/TfPBX
Clinical Guidelines: shorturl.at/84MU3
June 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
IFAS #FREE lunch & learn webinars are back by popular demand. Sign up to interact with the latest research on #Strangulation.
You can sign up to one, two or all three!
Survivors of Strangulation: shorturl.at/EbT38
SARC Strangulation Cases: shorturl.at/TfPBX
Clinical Guidelines: shorturl.at/84MU3
You can sign up to one, two or all three!
Survivors of Strangulation: shorturl.at/EbT38
SARC Strangulation Cases: shorturl.at/TfPBX
Clinical Guidelines: shorturl.at/84MU3
FREE webinar: Explore how data captured in SARC settings can support professionals understanding of strangulation across different victim/survivor groups including adult/ child victim/ survivors of sexual assault.
#VAWG #Training #Clinical
Sign up now! fflm.ac.uk/event/ifas-s...
#VAWG #Training #Clinical
Sign up now! fflm.ac.uk/event/ifas-s...
June 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
FREE webinar: Explore how data captured in SARC settings can support professionals understanding of strangulation across different victim/survivor groups including adult/ child victim/ survivors of sexual assault.
#VAWG #Training #Clinical
Sign up now! fflm.ac.uk/event/ifas-s...
#VAWG #Training #Clinical
Sign up now! fflm.ac.uk/event/ifas-s...
'Often people say they experience a “euphoric” feeling during strangulation, but that feeling is your brain cells being damaged – and you can’t regenerate new ones. If strangulation happens frequently, you’re putting yourself at risk of nerve damage, stroke and even death.’
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June 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
'Often people say they experience a “euphoric” feeling during strangulation, but that feeling is your brain cells being damaged – and you can’t regenerate new ones. If strangulation happens frequently, you’re putting yourself at risk of nerve damage, stroke and even death.’
tinyurl.com/4edfamdf
tinyurl.com/4edfamdf
This webinar will delve into our Reclaiming My Voice survivor project : ifas.org.uk/reclaiming-m.... Hear from survivors about the lived reality of being strangled and what professionals need to know to support others!
#Webinar #Training #DomesticAbuse #VAWG
Sign up now fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
#Webinar #Training #DomesticAbuse #VAWG
Sign up now fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
June 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This webinar will delve into our Reclaiming My Voice survivor project : ifas.org.uk/reclaiming-m.... Hear from survivors about the lived reality of being strangled and what professionals need to know to support others!
#Webinar #Training #DomesticAbuse #VAWG
Sign up now fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
#Webinar #Training #DomesticAbuse #VAWG
Sign up now fflm.ac.uk/event/ifassu...
“It is clear that within books/ films strangulation is conveyed as something women desire, that it can be done safely & seriousness is connected to visible bruising, something research contradicts.”
Our research analysing strangulation in UK media. ifas.org.uk/strangulatio...
Our research analysing strangulation in UK media. ifas.org.uk/strangulatio...
June 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“It is clear that within books/ films strangulation is conveyed as something women desire, that it can be done safely & seriousness is connected to visible bruising, something research contradicts.”
Our research analysing strangulation in UK media. ifas.org.uk/strangulatio...
Our research analysing strangulation in UK media. ifas.org.uk/strangulatio...
54% of victim ethnicity data was recorded as unknown by police in 2023- 2024, this lack of data makes it difficult to understand who might be affected by this type of offence and who might be more or less likely to report
June 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
54% of victim ethnicity data was recorded as unknown by police in 2023- 2024, this lack of data makes it difficult to understand who might be affected by this type of offence and who might be more or less likely to report
Evidential difficulties accounted for 70% of criminal justice outcomes with police in 2023- 2024. Therefore, there is work to do to better understand how and why cases don't progress through to charging
June 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Evidential difficulties accounted for 70% of criminal justice outcomes with police in 2023- 2024. Therefore, there is work to do to better understand how and why cases don't progress through to charging
39,360 strangulation and suffocation offences recorded in 2023- 2024 compared to 23,817 recorded in 2022- 2023
June 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
39,360 strangulation and suffocation offences recorded in 2023- 2024 compared to 23,817 recorded in 2022- 2023
We are publishing research on strangulation in UK media through analysing online article titles.
We will be launching findings through 5 short weekly reports. Sign up to our newsletter to get an alert: shorturl.at/Vjayj
Access Part 1 the Introduction & Methodology: ifas.org.uk/strangulatio...
We will be launching findings through 5 short weekly reports. Sign up to our newsletter to get an alert: shorturl.at/Vjayj
Access Part 1 the Introduction & Methodology: ifas.org.uk/strangulatio...
June 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
We are publishing research on strangulation in UK media through analysing online article titles.
We will be launching findings through 5 short weekly reports. Sign up to our newsletter to get an alert: shorturl.at/Vjayj
Access Part 1 the Introduction & Methodology: ifas.org.uk/strangulatio...
We will be launching findings through 5 short weekly reports. Sign up to our newsletter to get an alert: shorturl.at/Vjayj
Access Part 1 the Introduction & Methodology: ifas.org.uk/strangulatio...