Women’s Health event agenda These sessions are being held on Teams and will involve presentations followed by Q&A. To reserve your place or obtain more information about the sessions, please click here. Agenda Tuesday 15th October 9-10am – Women’s Sexual Health with Solent Sexual Health Team 10-11am – Perinatal Mental Health with Southern NHS […]
A victim of Rochdale grooming gangs has told the BBC that convictions she received as a teenager – for offences linked to the abuse she was suffering – have destroyed her hopes of a career. A senior police officer has joined calls for a review on criminal records of child exploitation victims. Read more on […]
A woman is challenging rules which deprived her of legal aid for action to protect her from her former partner. “Claire” gets universal credit but not legal aid because there is equity in the home she owns with her ex-partner. Read more on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52965764
Calls to the NSPCC about children witnessing the most serious forms of domestic abuse have jumped 25% in a year, the charity has warned. The number of reports that were referred to the police or local authorities rose to 6,642 in 2018/19 – up from 5,322 the year before. The children involved were at “huge […]
It was only when Abi Blake was nearly killed by her abusive husband that she decided to break up with him and press charges. A new policing pilot in Cheshire encourages women not to leave it so late, reports the BBC’s Sue Mitchell. They were introduced by friends just after Valentine’s Day in 2014. She […]
Nicole spent years living with a charming man, but she always seemed to be doing something wrong. Eventually she began to realise that it wasn’t her that was the problem, it was him – and when she met one of his previous girlfriends, Elizabeth, everything made sense. Here Nicole tells her story, followed by Elizabeth. […]
PIPPA Southampton have released their latest domestic abuse newsletter that can be accessed here.
What is this survey? This survey is gathering information to help inform a Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment. Why are you doing it? Hampshire County Council and Southampton City Council are working in partnership to undertake a Domestic Abuse Needs Assessments for both areas. This is partly because in Hampshire, we are starting the recommissioning process […]
Yellow Door and Southampton Women’s Aid are joining together to develop an exciting new project that will expand our services to victims and survivors of domestic and sexual abuse, with the involvement and help from local young people and adults. They hope you will help them get started by answering these few quick questions. The […]
