Controlling and coercive behaviour
Being monitored, restricted, threatened or made afraid in your own life.
A private first step when abuse, blackmail or immigration fear affects your safety.
Clarespath helps you organise what is happening quietly, without sending your answers anywhere. Use it before speaking to a solicitor, qualified adviser, support worker or charity.
Your answers stay with you. Clarespath helps you find the next safe person or service to speak to.
Private Pathway Tool
A calm first step before speaking to someone.
- No account needed
- No answers stored
- No detailed incident description
- Stop anytime
What happens next?
- 1Choose your situation
- 2Answer general questions
- 3See your private summary
- 4Find support options
You decide what to share, and who to speak to.
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Choose your pathway
Choose what best matches your situation
You do not need to know the legal words. Choose the option that feels closest to what is happening.
Domestic abuse in a relationship
Including emotional, financial, physical or coercive control by a partner or family member — with or without an immigration concern.
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Threats, blackmail or control
Threats about private images, personal information, money demands, or someone using your immigration status against you.
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Student or young person
Support for young people, students or anyone under 25 facing harm, pressure, online abuse or safeguarding concerns.
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If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 999. For 24-hour support: National Domestic Abuse Helpline 0808 2000 247 — free and confidential.
No account needed
No answers stored
Safe Exit available
Not legal advice
What it can include
Abuse takes many forms
Domestic abuse can include control, threats, financial pressure, emotional harm, isolation, or someone using your immigration status, passport or documents against you. Abuse is not always physical — and you do not need to have a police report or perfect evidence before speaking to someone who can help.
Financial abuse
Someone controls your money, work, benefits or access to what you need.
Emotional abuse
Insults, blame, humiliation or constant pressure that leaves you doubting yourself.
Physical abuse
Being hurt, pushed, restrained or made physically unsafe.
Forced marriage or abandonment abroad
Pressure to marry, or being left outside the UK without support.
Immigration abuse
Someone uses your visa, passport, documents or UKVI account to control you.
How it helps
Prepare before you speak to someone
When you are under pressure, it can be hard to explain what is happening. Clarespath helps you organise the basic information safely and calmly.
Understand your situation
Choose the pathway that best matches your circumstances — no legal knowledge needed.
Prepare a simple summary
Answer general questions to create a basic summary you can share with a solicitor, adviser or support worker.
Find safer next steps
See support options, helplines and guidance that may be relevant to your situation.
Bridge to support
A bridge to support, not a replacement for support
Clarespath does not replace solicitors, charities, IDVAs, safeguarding teams or emergency services. It helps you organise what is happening and take a safer first step.
If you choose to find support, the aim is to guide you towards relevant support services, helplines, legal advice routes or local organisations that may be able to help. Clarespath does not require you to contact us, instruct us, or share your answers with us.
You stay in control of what you do next.
How it works
Five gentle steps. Stop at any time.
Read the safety notice
Guidance on private browsing, safer devices, and what to do if someone may be monitoring your screen.
Answer general questions
Simple questions about your visa type, situation and concerns. You do not need to describe specific incidents.
See a private summary
A simple summary appears in your browser. Nothing is sent to anyone.
Download only if safe
If your device is private, you can save the summary as a text file. Clarespath never receives a copy.
Share with a professional
Show your summary to a solicitor, adviser, IDVA or support worker to help them understand your situation quickly.
This tool does not submit anything to the Home Office, police, charities, solicitors or any organisation. It is for your preparation only.
Privacy and safety
Designed with safety at the centre
Clarespath is designed for people who may be watched, monitored or controlled. The tool is simple, private and does not require an account.
No accounts, no logins, no cookies
You don’t sign up, and you can’t be identified by us.
No data sent to any server
Everything happens inside your browser, on your device.
Your summary stays in your browser
Until you close the page, or choose to download it.
Safe Exit on every page
Press Esc or tap the Safe Exit button to leave instantly. It cannot remove every trace from your device or network.
Use a safer device if needed
If someone may check your phone, browser history, downloads or emails, consider using a safer device before downloading anything.
For professionals
For support workers, advisers and safeguarding professionals
Clarespath can help your clients prepare before appointments — so you can understand their situation more quickly, without putting them through repeat disclosure. It is not a replacement for legal advice, safeguarding assessment or emergency support.
Why Clarespath exists
A calmer first step
People experiencing abuse, threats or immigration-related control often do not know where to start. Some are afraid to speak. Some have no evidence. Some are worried about their visa, documents, children, housing, money or safety.
Clarespath is an independent project built to help people organise their situation before they speak to someone who can help. It is not a law firm, not a government service, and not connected to the police or the Home Office.
You do not need to explain everything today. Start with the safest step.
Project lead: Abu ul Hassan · Clarespath pilot, Luton.
Pilot Notice
Currently in pilot in the Luton area.
The tool and content are being reviewed by immigration professionals and support workers. We welcome feedback from survivors, IDVAs, solicitors and support organisations to help us improve before a wider launch.
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Independent from Clare’s Law, the police and government.
Clarespath is named in the spirit of Clare’s Law. It is not part of Clare’s Law, the police, the Home Office, or any government service. Clare Wood’s family has not endorsed this project. Clarespath is an independent access-to-justice project.
Start privately
Choose the pathway that best matches your situation. You can stop at any time.