Safe Issue 36 - Winter 2011
Full articles from the Safe back catalogue
Highlights include...
Women, access to justice and tea at the Ritz
It was recently announced that the Ministry of Justice is proposing to make a number of changes to legal aid. Here Cate Briddick explains why legal aid is so vital, and why these changes will have significant negative effects on women.
Spotlight
The Berkshire East & South Bucks Women’s Aid Children’s Services Department was set up in November 2009 and a year later won the Children and Young People Now magazine Team of the Year award for Services to Children and Young People. Delia Donovan tells us more about the team’s work.
“We want to make a real difference to the lives of victims”
At the close of 2010 Lynne Featherstone MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Equalities Office, shared with Safe the government’s national priorities for tackling violence against women and children. But during this period of massive change and immediate cuts looming at local level as well as national, can the strategy succeed?
Putting survivors back at the heart of the violence against women and girls movement
The violence against women and girls movement was instigated and led by survivors, determined that others should not suffer as they did. With the increasing focus on professionalisation of the violence against women and girls sector, Sophie Taylor asks, have survivors become invisible in their own movement?
Respect multi-site research into perpetrator programme outcomes: what counts as success?
The pilot period of the research project into the impact of perpetrator programmes on the safety of women and children in the UK has come to an end. An integral principle and practice running throughout the project is partnership, collaboration and consultation between researchers, practitioners and policy makers. Thangam Debbonaire, Research Manager for the project, tells us how this led them to address the first question of measuring what success means from different perspectives.
Making sense of why so few LGBT victim/survivors are referred to MARACs: a regional perspective
This summary report by Dr Catherine Donovan and James Rowlands presents the findings from a qualitative study exploring why so few Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) victim/survivors of domestic violence are referred to Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs), and recommendations about how this might be improved.
Plus all the latest news, research, book reviews and events.
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