Rape Crisis Scotland and Scottish Women’s Aid have issued an SOS to the Scottish Government to protect ring fenced funding for services that support women and children who have experienced rape, domestic abuse and other forms of violence.
Rape Crisis Scotland has launched a short film - Making Recovery a Reality – to highlight the support provided to women by rape crisis centres in Scotland. Click here to read the press release or the full briefing.
Save the date: Saturday 25 September. More information.
SWA welcomes the news that the Home Secretary, Theresa May, has extended the Sojourner Pilot for women with no recourse to public funds until March 2011. The Home Office has also indicated that it is looking for a permanent solution to the problem, and it is expected that there will be a meeting with stakeholders and the Home Office in September.
For more information on the Sojourner Project and how to access funding please click on this link.
SWA will hold its annual conference in Edinburgh on Wednesday 15th September 2010. Our Keynote speakers this year are the Minister for Community Safety, Fergus Ewing, the Lord Advocate the Rt Hon Elish Angiolini, Janette De Haan from the Women’s Support Project and Stephen House, Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police and the Chair of ACPOS Crime Business Group. We also have an exciting programme of workshops. You can view the full brochure here.
Scottish Women's Aid hosted the first ever Cedar conference in Edinburgh in June, disseminating the findings of a report on the first year's progress. SWA also launched a short film, produced by the Media Co-op, to highlight the important work that is being done to help children, young people and their mothers rebuild their lives after domestic abuse.
You can see the programme from the conference, as well as the full evaluation report and clips from the Cedar film by following this link.
You have the right to live without fear of violence and abuse.
If you, or someone you know, is being abused by their partner, find out how Women’s Aid can help.
Young people can be affected by domestic and dating abuse. If you're worried about what's happening to you or a parent or a friend you can use this site to find information for young people.
You have the right to live without fear of violence and abuse.
If you, or someone you know, is being abused by their partner, find out how Women’s Aid can help.
Young people can be affected by domestic and dating abuse. If you're worried about what's happening to you or a parent or a friend you can use this site to find
information for young people.
"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means... I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."
June Jordan, Jamaican American Political Activist (1936-2002)