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Please support our vital service in @ClydeBWomensAid who are facing cuts to their service which will make it unsustainable for them to function - despite domestic abuse being at an all time high. More info attached
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Clydebank Women's Aid are hosting a demonstration against the proposed cuts against our service - Clydebank Women's Aid will NOT survive these cuts. please show your support by attending.
Following on from our national conference, next Tuesday we have @davidgmandel facilitating a training event at Edinburgh City Chambers based on how to work through some of the systemic gaps in supporting child survivors of domestic abuse
Still some tickets left-check our website
Less than 3 weeks until @davidgmandel comes to Edinburgh to deliver this full day workshop on how to transform the ways we keep children safe from domestic abuse!
Get your tickets before they sell out
@SafeandTogether
Less than 3 weeks to get your tickets to our in person national conference!
Hear from our experts how we can properly address childrens experiences, risk and human rights
@davidgmandel @SafeandTogether @jenanglaw @justrightscot @RuthFriskney @JDev65 @RichardWhitecr3 @tambaillie
Still some tickets available for our wonderful in person conference coming up - book your space now before they disappear :)
An all star line up for our in person National Conference - bringing the leading expert voices! Keynote by @davidgmandel ; inputs from @jenanglaw; @RichardWhitecr3; @RuthFriskney; Gillian Baker; @tam_baillie and more
Book tix here: training.womensaid.scot
Full agenda now available for our National Conference - leading voices including @davidgmandel; @jenanglaw; @JDev65; @RuthFriskney; @tam_baillie; @RichardWhitecr3 and more
An all star line up for our in person National Conference - bringing the leading expert voices! Keynote by @davidgmandel ; inputs from @jenanglaw; @RichardWhitecr3; @RuthFriskney; Gillian Baker; @tam_baillie and more
Book tix here: training.womensaid.scot
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📣NEWS!!
Cafcass have finally admitted that they've been getting it wrong about domestic abuse.
Cafcass Chief Executive, Jacky Tiotto said: "I am sorry that some four years on from the Harm Panel report, there are still children and adults in family court proceedings who do not receive the protection they deserve and require."
"No child or adult should have to live with or worry about the prospect of spending time with another adult who threatens, controls, abuses, and harms them. Sadly, many abusive adults apply to the family court to spend time or to live with their children despite causing them harm and being a risk of further harm to them in the future."
NEW POLICY INTRODUCED!
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cafcass.gov.uk/cafcass-publi…
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You are invited to join SWA and leading Scottish and international experts in law, justice and social work to explore and draw attention to the systemic issues at play regarding #childcontact, highlighting the need to reform #justice processes in Scotland. More info and book your place 👉 ow.ly/ktF350TwYgn
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Book this special full day catered training event facilitated by #DavidMandel, Founder & CEO of the Safe & Together Institute. You’ll leave with concrete strategies for transforming your organisational policies and practices, as well as tools to assist you in building a strong common language across your agency and community. More info and book 👉ow.ly/b0Ov50TwXls
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📢SWA National Conference Speaker Announcement – Founding Director of #Lawmanity, Jen Ang, will be leading the following workshop:
👉Children’s and Women’s Human Rights – Consideration of the legal landscape to challenge state failure to improve contact processes.
🌏As part of the workshop, Jen will also be looking at the #UNCRC and recent cases that have been heard at the European Court of Human Rights regarding child contact as a violation of children's rights
Lawmanity is a project that aims to tackle inequalities in the law by working with people-led movements to secure positive change. Jen was formerly Founding Director of JustRight Scotland, a human rights charity which uses the law to defend and extend people’s rights.
Jen is an experienced human rights lawyer and activist, qualified to practice in Scotland, England and Wales, and New York State. She is a legal expert on immigration and asylum, violence against women and girls, children’s rights, and on the rights of survivors of torture and trafficking.
She is also a Professor in Practice at the #UniversityofGlasgow and believes in making legal education open and accessible to all.
📆Join SWA and leading Scottish and international experts in law, justice and social work to explore and draw attention to the systemic issues at play regarding #childcontact, highlighting the need to reform justice processes in Scotland. More info and book your place 👉 training.womensaid.scot/swa-…
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📢SWA National Conference Speaker Announcement – Dr Ruth Friskney, Research Fellow (Sociological & Cultural Studies) at the #UniversityofGlasgow and Research Associate with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research #SCCJR, will be leading the following workshop:
👉 Improving Space for Children in Child Contact Processes. Even if practitioners did understand – there’s no space for thinking about children in the child contact process.
Ruth’s research looks at the relationships between individuals and institutions, with a particular focus on the experiences of children and women affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence. Recent work has included looking at lawyers’ perceptions of the child contact system for children and women affected by domestic abuse in Scotland. Ruth’s research often builds on previous policy work in the areas of gender-based violence and justice.
📆Join SWA and leading Scottish and international experts in law, justice and social work to explore and draw attention to the systemic issues at play regarding #childcontact, highlighting the need to reform justice processes in Scotland. More info and book your place 👉 training.womensaid.scot/swa-…
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We expect women to control their own abuse and then stigmatise them as “weak” or “too afraid” when they fail to magic up choices that solve no money and no safety. Instead of “Why doesn’t she just leave?” we should ask “Why do we let this go on?” #FreedomShouldntCost
📢Stop asking ‘Why doesn’t she just leave?’ 📢
How can we ask women to uproot themselves, their children and their lives when they have no money, no income and no access to immediate support? And why should we expect them to?
Economic abuse further constrains the already very limited choices women have when it comes to separating from an abuser. It can make women reliant on abusers for a roof over their head and food on their table. And it presents them with the impossible choice between staying and continuing to experience abuse, or leaving and facing poverty and destitution for themselves and their children.
This is not the way things should be.
Empower our work around economic abuse because #FreedomShouldntCost.
Donate today and your donation will be generously matched by the Big Give Women and Girls Match Fund, so your money will go twice as far: bit.ly/4gVZtLk
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Northern Ireland per head of population is one of the most dangerous places in Europe to be a woman.
Four women have been murdered by men in six weeks.
Mary Ward is the latest victim. The 24th woman to be killed in Northern Ireland since January 2020.
Her body was found in her home in south Belfast on 1 October, but police believe she was killed on 25 September.
This is horrific. I talked about the increasing femicide rate when I was in Northern Iteland in April.
These murders do not come out the blue.
There’s always a history which means they can potentially be prevented.
Men are the ones who can stop it, it’s men who are killing women.
Article: rte.ie/news/analysis-and-com…
#CrimeAnalyst #NorthernIreland #Femicide #MaryWard #PreventMurderInSlowMotion™️ #MaleViolence
International Human Rights Expert Jen Ang providing our afternoon keynote for conference - childrens rights violations.
Grab your tickets while you can - they're flying off the shelves
📢SWA National Conference Speaker Announcement – Founding Director of #Lawmanity, Jen Ang, will be leading the following workshop:
👉Children’s and Women’s Human Rights – Consideration of the legal landscape to challenge state failure to improve contact processes.
🌏As part of the workshop, Jen will also be looking at the #UNCRC and recent cases that have been heard at the European Court of Human Rights regarding child contact as a violation of children's rights
Lawmanity is a project that aims to tackle inequalities in the law by working with people-led movements to secure positive change. Jen was formerly Founding Director of JustRight Scotland, a human rights charity which uses the law to defend and extend people’s rights.
Jen is an experienced human rights lawyer and activist, qualified to practice in Scotland, England and Wales, and New York State. She is a legal expert on immigration and asylum, violence against women and girls, children’s rights, and on the rights of survivors of torture and trafficking.
She is also a Professor in Practice at the #UniversityofGlasgow and believes in making legal education open and accessible to all.
📆Join SWA and leading Scottish and international experts in law, justice and social work to explore and draw attention to the systemic issues at play regarding #childcontact, highlighting the need to reform justice processes in Scotland. More info and book your place 👉 training.womensaid.scot/swa-…
Speaker announcements coming in thick and fast for our conference on domestic abuse and child contact!
📢SWA National Conference Speaker Announcement – Dr Ruth Friskney, Research Fellow (Sociological & Cultural Studies) at the #UniversityofGlasgow and Research Associate with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research #SCCJR, will be leading the following workshop:
👉 Improving Space for Children in Child Contact Processes. Even if practitioners did understand – there’s no space for thinking about children in the child contact process.
Ruth’s research looks at the relationships between individuals and institutions, with a particular focus on the experiences of children and women affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence. Recent work has included looking at lawyers’ perceptions of the child contact system for children and women affected by domestic abuse in Scotland. Ruth’s research often builds on previous policy work in the areas of gender-based violence and justice.
📆Join SWA and leading Scottish and international experts in law, justice and social work to explore and draw attention to the systemic issues at play regarding #childcontact, highlighting the need to reform justice processes in Scotland. More info and book your place 👉 training.womensaid.scot/swa-…
An all star line up for our in person National Conference - bringing the leading expert voices! Keynote by @davidgmandel ; inputs from @jenanglaw; @RichardWhitecr3; @RuthFriskney; Gillian Baker; @tam_baillie and more
Book tix here: training.womensaid.scot
Get your tickets for our wonderful training experience with @davidgmandel of the @SafeandTogether Institute - being held in Edinburgh on 12 July
Tickets available now on training.womensaid.scot
Bookings now open for our national conference!
A human rights dissection into child contact, and how social work practice and civil/criminal court interplay can work better for domestic abuse survivors
📢Bookings are open for the SWA National Conference – Reforming Justice Responses to Domestic Abuse in Child Contact Proceedings: A Human Rights Approach. See more information and book 👉 training.womensaid.scot/swa-…
⚖️There is an urgent need to address the current failures of mechanisms across criminal and civil courts that lead to sheriffs in child contact proceedings having insufficient information regarding several critical factors.
🌏The conference will explore this issue and will also highlight the connection to and implications of recent international human rights cases, and the incorporation of UNCRC to judicial thinking.
