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The emergency kit

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If you’ve seen the film Sleeping with the Enemy with Julia Roberts, you’ll remember her packing a holdall in preparation for her escape from her abusive husband. This is an emergency kit. Try and find a bag or holdall big enough to hold most essentials, but small enough to hide from your partner. Put it somewhere you can lay your hands on it easily in an emergency. I’ve listed the belongings you should try and secure in this bag for when you leave. Not necessarily all at once, but over a period of time, so your partner doesn’t notice they are missing.


  • A change of clothes
  • Some money
  • A child’s special toy
  • Duplicate car keys
  • Driver’s licence
  • Benefit books
  • Any court orders/injunctions
  • Birth certificates for yourself and your children
  • Bank details/account numbers
  • Credit cards/cheque books
  • Mortgage or housing details
  • National insurance number
  • Medical cards for yourself and your children
  • Medication for yourself and your children
  • Address book
  • Photographs
  • Divorce papers/marriage licence
  • Jewellery
  • Spectacles
  • Mobile phone and charger

Remember NONE of these things are as important as your life and those of your children. If you don’t manage to leave with anything then it may always be possible to return with a police escort to collect your belongings. If you are in danger, do not wait to get your bits and pieces together. Leave.



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