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International Women’s Day: Women’s Aid launches a dedicated service for professionals  

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International Women’s Day: Women’s Aid launches a dedicated service for professionals   Today on International Women’s Day, Women’s Aid launches a dedicated service for professionals currently working with survivors of domestic abuse, seeking refuge accommodation and support. Professionals including social workers, health workers, housing officers and the police can access the dedicated service. Women’s Aid […]

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International Women’s Day: Women’s Aid launches petition to require local authorities to fund women’s domestic abuse services

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International Women’s Day: Women’s Aid launches petition to require local authorities to fund women’s domestic abuse services   Sign the petition here and share with your networks to support our vital campaign to protect women’s refuges and local domestic abuse services. On International Women’s Day, the national domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid is launching a petition to the government

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Many refuge spaces have no local authority funding

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Many refuge spaces have no local authority funding   Existing shortfall in refuge spaces would increase to 42% without non-commissioned services   A new report published today by Women’s Aid reveals that a significant proportion of spaces in refuge services are run without any local authority commissioned funding. Furthermore, a disproportionate number of these spaces without funding

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Expect Respect toolkit

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Women’s Aid launches healthy relationship Expect Respect toolkit on Valentine’s Day as part of Yves Saint Laurent Beauty’s Abuse is Not Love programme On Valentine’s Day, the national domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid will launch a toolkit to help children and young people recognise the key warning signs of abuse and promote healthy relationships, as part of Yves Saint Laurent Beauty UK’s Abuse is Not Love programme. The Expect Respect Healthy Relationship Toolkit produced by Women’s Aid is a prevention toolkit

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Domestic abuse support services face funding challenges

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Over half of domestic abuse support services were running areas of work without dedicated funding The domestic abuse sector continues to face funding challenges, according to Women’s Aid’s The Domestic Abuse Report 2021: The Annual Audit. The report reviews how support services have fared during the financial year 2019 – 2020 and the findings will be announced at

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Women’s Aid responds to launch of Ask for Ani codeword scheme

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Women’s Aid responds to Ask for Ani codeword launch   Nicki Norman, acting chief executive at Women’s Aid, said “Following the ‘Mask 19’ initiative in Spain and other European countries – where women can use a codeword to alert pharmacies about domestic abuse – the UK government is launching a similar approach. Survivors will be able to

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Farah Nazeer is announced as Women’s Aid new chief executive

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Farah Nazeer is announced as Women’s Aid new chief executive   Farah Nazeer has been announced as the new chief executive of Women’s Aid and will take up her position on 1 March 2021.  A charity executive with over 20 years of director-level experience, Farah is passionate about women’s rights. She has worked on women’s rights and gender issues

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Landmark win for Women's Aid's Child First campaign with changes announced to make child contact safer

Landmark win for Women’s Aid’s Child First campaign

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Landmark win for Women’s Aid’s Child First campaign with changes announced to make child contact safer Friday 15th September 2017 Following Women’s Aid’s Child First campaign, changes to the guidance given to judges in child contact cases when there is an allegation of domestic abuse, have been announced by Sir James Munby, President of the

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