She added: “To be able to deal with this there has to be an awareness, people have to start understanding. It has to be in the public discourse, the public dialogue - this happens and it can happen to anyone under your nose.
“What Covid did was open that dialogue in a way that’s never been done before. People understood. Imagine you are locked-in with someone who is abusing you. People suddenly felt it. That really has made a massive difference.”
But she warned that with so many people now working at home the “boundaries are blurred”.
“Gone are the days of leave your personal problems at home, when you get to the office door ‘stiff upper lip and all that’. This can be a matter for life and death for some people,” she added.
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