PRESS & MEDIA

SAFECHAIN™ is a safeguarding compliance infrastructure designed to reduce institutional failure in domestic abuse-related systems by making procedural safeguarding measurable, auditable, and enforceable.

This page provides official information for journalists, editors, podcasters, researchers, and institutional partners.

Founder

SAFECHAIN™ was founded by Samantha Avril-Andreassen, a survivor-advocate and systems reform founder focused on safeguarding, institutional accountability, and trauma-informed compliance.

Samantha’s work integrates:

  • lived-experience-informed design

  • statutory framing (UK)

  • procedural fairness and participation protection

  • structured education programmes

  • auditable safeguarding protocols

Speaking Topics

  • Weaponised justice and procedural fairness

  • Participation impairment and Equality Act duties

  • Post-separation coercion and institutional blind spots

  • From awareness to audit: safeguarding that can be proven

About SAFECHAIN™

SAFECHAIN™ delivers a compliance-overlay model for safeguarding environments where domestic abuse, coercive control, and vulnerability intersect with formal decision-making.

SAFECHAIN™ focuses on:

  • Trauma-blind misinterpretation risk in institutional settings

  • Participation impairment and procedural fairness

  • Post-separation coercion and litigation-as-control patterns

  • Auditability: documenting what was done, when, and why

  • Interoperability-first architecture for integration with existing systems

SAFECHAIN™ does not provide emergency safeguarding intervention. It is a compliance, education, and audit model intended for institutional implementation and prevention.

Contact us

What We Can Comment On

SAFECHAIN™ can provide commentary on:

  • coercive control and post-separation abuse patterns

  • trauma-blind misinterpretation in legal and safeguarding systems

  • equality duties, participation adjustments, procedural fairness

  • safeguarding compliance, audit trails, and prevention frameworks

  • institutional risk modelling and behavioural literacy

SAFECHAIN™ does not comment on active litigation or provide legal advice.

Available on request:

  • Founder headshot

  • SAFECHAIN™ logo pack

  • Brand colours + typography sheet

  • SAFECHAIN™ one-page overview

  • Programme overview (courses + institutional pilots)

  • Approved boilerplate text

Press: press@safe-chain.org

SAFECHAIN™ is a safeguarding compliance infrastructure designed to reduce institutional failure in domestic abuse-related systems through measurable, auditable, and enforceable safeguarding protocols. SAFECHAIN™ focuses on trauma-blind misinterpretation risk, participation impairment, post-separation coercion patterns, and compliance logging that can operate alongside existing institutional systems. SAFECHAIN™ delivers structured education programmes and a compliance-overlay model intended for government, safeguarding institutions, legal environments, and public sector contexts. SAFECHAIN™ does not provide legal advice, medical services, or emergency safeguarding intervention.