Stay Brave welcomes a new law has come into force in Scotland that makes psychological domestic abuse and controlling behaviour a crime. It covers the full breadth of violent, threatening, intimidating and other controlling behaviour which can destroy a victim’s autonomy and further recognises the adverse impact domestic abuse can have on children. Until the new legislation, the law in Scotland only provided for prosecution of the physical aspects of domestic abuse. Law enfor

Earlier this week was international men’s day which highlights men’s health, improving gender relations, promoting gender equality, and highlighting male role models. With many of the stereotypical characteristics of being a man following on the lines of to “not show emotions”, to “toughen up”, to rely on the physical and not emotional we can see that there have been many negative effects of this. In this years Samaritans suicide report, it again shows that “Male rates remain

Following on from the success of our Founders' Appeal, Stay Brave UK's Chair Nathan Sparling explains the next steps in our applicat

Stay Brave UK recently had the opportunity to interview film director Ben Hyland to discuss his latest project Padlock, a contemporary story

I had just started at a university in the next city over and I had a girlfriend back home. She hadn’t had a good life so far, her parents didn’t pay much attention and her ex had died in a car accident a year or so before. She was nice – I liked her. An alarm bell should have sounded when she would occasionally start calling me Dan. She had her demons, but I was young and this was my first girlfriend, I honestly didn’t think I’d ever find someone to pay attention to me. I was