NDAS to remain open!

Northumberland Domestic Abuse Services supports adults and children who are living in terrifying and unpredictable circumstances. Over the past six months the charity has been fighting to keep the doors open, and has called on our communities for support. The response has been overwhelming.

Jobs: NDAS

Northumberland Domestic Abuse Services is recruiting:

Jobs: A Way Out

A Way Out is looking to recruit to a Family Intervention Co-ordinator – Liberty (women with complex needs)– part time (22.5 hrs pw), £21,312 pro rata.

Triple Whammy: the impact of local government cuts on women – Women’s Budget Group

A report written by Heather Wakefield for Women’s Budget Group, Triple Whammy – the impact of local government cuts on Women explores the crisis that has been created by finding cuts to local government since 2010. The reports key findings include:

Funding: Rosa

Rosa’s Voices From the Frontline grant programme is now open for applications. This fund supports women’s organisations to shine a light on their fight for gender equality in the UK. It resources advocacy, campaigning and activists with lived experience of injustice and inequality – giving voice especially to women facing intersecting disadvantages including race, class, sexuality, disability, poverty or migration status.

Cost of domestic abuse

Hestia has published findings from analysis into the cost of failing to provide support to children exposed to domestic violence. The report, which focuses on the long term costs incurred by the state in supporting children who develop conduct and attention disorders as a result of exposure to severe domestic violence, estimates a potential total cost of between £480 million and £1.4 billion. Read the report On the Sidelines: The Economic and Personal Cost of Childhood Exposure to domestic Violence

Child sexual exploitation by organised networks investigation

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has opened applications for core participants in its investigation into child sexual exploitation by organised networks in England and Wales. Core participants have special rights in the inquiry process, including receiving disclosure of documentation, being represented and making legal submissions, suggesting questions and receiving advance notice of the Inquiry’s report. The deadline for applications is 4pm on 27 March 2019.

Relationships, health and sex education briefing

The NSPCC has produced a CASPAR briefing summarising the Department for Education’s (DfE’s) draft statutory guidance about how Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education should be implemented in all schools in England by 2020. The briefing sets out key points covered in the guidance, including: developing a policy, content, parents’ right to withdraw, whole school approach and safeguarding.

Women's Budget Group - Spring Statement: Promise of ‘end of austerity’ rings hollow

Social security frozen for another year and public services are in crisis

Young Women's Trust Film Launch

Young Women's Trust says

We're launching our powerful new film inspired by the recent 100 year anniversary of some women getting the vote. It stars our very own young women talking about the challenges still faced by women today and why more needs to be done.

Help us share it far and wide using our suggested posts - or using your own!

North East Women's Network

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