Law enforcement agencies in the UK and USA have signed an intelligence sharing agreement to tackle female genital mutilation (FGM). Signatories including the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), the Metropolitan Police, Border Force, the FBI, and the US Department of Homeland Security have pledged to share intelligence about travel patterns between the UK and US and other parts of the world where victims may be taken for the procedure. Source: NSPCC Caspar Alert

You can see what's on now and through the autumns at Women's Health in South Tyneside by following this link - http://www.whist.org.uk/september-programme-of-provision/

Agenda, the alliance for women and girls at risk, and Mind are delighted to announce that a £1.3m women’s mental health peer support grants programme is now open for applications. The programme responds to the needs of women experiencing disadvantage, particularly multiple disadvantage, who are frequently under-represented in services. It builds on our experience of peer support approaches that we have seen reach women within their communities and that women value.

Last week, The Guardian reported on the latest Children’s Society analysis suggesting that 100,000 children aged 14 in the UK are self-harming, with one in four girls of this age having deliberately hurt themselves. In figures that show the scale of the mental health crisis affecting young people, the Children’s Survey analysed a survey of 11,000 14-year-olds which found that a quarter of girls and nearly one in 10 boys had self-harmed in a year.