Greater London Domestic Violence Project Costs: £90 (vol), £130 (stat) Dates: 30th April 2009 Trainer: Tina Vink Course description This course aims to equip participants with a basic knowledge of alcohol, its effects on the body and how it may be used problematically by survivors. The morning session will focus on theory and the afternoon [...]
Greater London Domestic Violence Project Costs: £90 (vol), £130 (stat) Dates: 21st April 2009 Trainer: Dr. Roxane-Agnew Davies Course description Participants will explore the behaviours which constitute domestic violence and the ways in which substances are used by both survivor and perpetrator. The complexities in leaving violent relationships will also be covered alongside legal and [...]
Greater London Domestic Violence Project Costs: £90 (vol), £130 (stat) Dates: 6th April 2009 Trainer: Amanda Middleton Course Description This course will explore attitudes and beliefs around drugs and alcohol as well as the different types of substances and how they can be used and misused within a domestic violence context. The legal and health [...]
Greater London Domestic Violence Project Costs: £90 (vol), £130 (stat) Date: 26th March 2009 Trainers: Phil Price and Karen Bailey This course looks at identifying domestic violence perpetrators, giving safe messages and making appropriate referrals upon identification. It will also explore theoretical perspectives around domestic violence – the links to substance misuse and why the [...]
This is the first annual childcare cost survey conducted since Childcare Sufficiency Assessments have been completed in England and Wales. The figures are compiled from a survey of local authorities with responses from 136 out of 200 Family Information Services (FIS) in England, Scotland and Wales (68 per cent response rate), based on 50 hours [...]
Do something different this Valentine’s Day- make a date with feminists! Sat 14th Feb, 10.30am-6.30 pm Tindle Manor, 52-4 Featherstone St EC1 (nearest tube Old St.) NB new venue – SOAS Russell Square Fully accessible venue. This event is free! For more info see http://www.anticapitalistfeminists.co.uk To register email anticapitalistfeminists@gmail.com Discussing and organising our fight for [...]
from Women’s Resource Centre Hackney funding seminar Date: Thursday 29 January 2009 Time: 9.30am – 2.00pm Venue: Hackney CVS Come listen and pose your questions to inspiring experts in fundraising, commissioning, trading and partnership building. They will share pearls of wisdom about how you could make your organisation more financially stable. There will also be [...]
Object and Fawcett On 19th January 2009 cross-party MPs voted overwhelmingly to support the Government’s proposed changes to the way lap dancing clubs are licensed. The new Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Grayling MP, spoke strongly in favour of the reforms, as did MPs Lynda Waltho, Roberta Blackman-Woods and Andrew Slaughter. Lap dancing clubs are currently [...]
Daycare Trust, the national childcare campaign, are welcoming new policy announcements for early years education and care in ‘New Opportunities’ White Paper including: Extending free childcare places for two-year olds, including £57m to extend the pilot scheme to 15% of the most disadvantaged two-year-olds nationally making 23,000 free places available each year, spread across every [...]
Refuge The scale of domestic violence in this country is breathtaking: one woman in four will experience it at some point in her lifetime, and two women are killed by a current or former partner every week. At Refuge, we have been working for over 35 years to combat this problem, and today our various [...]
