A Necessary Woman - performances in Morpeth and Newbiggin

Census Night, 1911
Suffragette Emily Davison is hiding in a cleaning cupboard beneath the Palace of Westminster. Emily Plans a daring act in Parliament for Monday morning, but with a greater police presence and security tighter than usual, will she achieve her ambition before she's caught and returned to prison?
Based on a true event to celebrate the 2018 suffrage centenary. Look in the Events section for details of performances at New Life Christian Centre Morpeth on 11th September and Newbiggin Maritime Centre on 12th September.

Tyne & Wear Museums Women's Collection

Tyne and Wear Museums are encouraging local women and girls to explore their collections and get involved in creating their first Women’s Collection.

If you’d like to take part or want to know more: https://twmuseums.org.uk/women-of-tyneside

Women in Crisis: How women and girls are being failed by the Mental Health Act

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This report sets out growing evidence that being detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 can be detrimental to women and girls’ wellbeing, with little attention paid to their particular needs, including their experience of trauma. This can have devastating consequences for women and girls, as shown by previously unpublished figures on self-inflicted deaths outlined in this report. Women and girls are slightly less likely than men and boys to be detained under the Mental Health Act. In 2016/17, 21,291 women and girls and 22,716 men and boys were detained.

Appalling rates of self-inflicted deaths among women and girls

Women and girls detained under the Mental Health Act are taking their lives at “appalling” rates, according to a report from Agenda, the alliance for women and girls at risk. New figures, obtained by Agenda from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), show that women’s self-inflicted deaths overtook men’s for the first time in 2015 and did so again in 2016. Read the full report: Women in Crisis: How women and girls are being failed by the Mental Health Act.

Rape Crisis Group Work

Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland is running its next 8-week evening group from mid-October in central Newcastle. RCTN groups are for any woman aged 16 or over who lives, works or studies in Tyneside and Northumberland and has experienced sexual violence at any time in her life. The group offers a safe, supportive space to meet other women, explore myths around sexual violence and practice self-care and positive coping mechanisms.

Jobs: ARCH North East

ARCH North East is recruiting a SARC Link Worker (Full time, £23,500 per year). The post holder will be employed by ARCH North East and seconded to work within the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) for Teesside. The primary aim of the post is to support and increase referrals from a range of health settings into the SARC and other Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) support services, also including support to Men and Boys.

Abuse victims increasingly denied right to stay in UK

The Guardian reported that the refusal rate for people applying to stay in the UK after suffering domestic violence more than doubled between 2012 and 2016 after the government pledged to make the UK a “hostile environment for illegal immigrants”. A new rule, which allowed people who entered the UK on a spousal visa and then suffered domestic abuse, the right to apply for leave to remain, was introduced in 2002 after campaigners argued that women were being forced to choose between deportation and continued abuse or domestic violence.

Abuse on the block: How block managers can do more to stop domestic abuse

Read the latest News on the Block blog post on what private block managers can do in cases of domestic abuse from tenants.

I’ll be a survivor for the rest of my life: adult survivors of child sexual abuse and their experience of support services

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This report is based on a collaborative qualitative research study conducted in partnership between the University of Suffolk and Survivors in Transition (SiT) between January and May 2018, looking at the impact of delayed disclosure and access to services and support for those who experienced sexual abuse in their childhood.

Adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse

The University of Suffolk and the charity Survivors in Transition have published research looking at the impact of delayed disclosure and access to services and support for those who experienced sexual abuse in their childhood.

North East Women's Network