POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Mar 13, 2020

Stop the police policing their own domestic abuses

Loyalty towards fellow officers may be getting in the way of justice for women who report abuse. The Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ) has submitted a super-complaint to The Police Inspectorate highlighting systemic failures women are experiencing when reporting domestic abuse perpetrated by police officers and others employed by the police. The CWJ has been contacted by 46 women who have felt severely let down by the police service after they reported domestic abuse and sexual offences...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Mar 11, 2020

End racial disparities in women’s healthcare

“We need to pinpoint the exact causes of these disparities in order to tackle them.” The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has called for the government to tackle the issues related to racial disparities in women’s healthcare in the UK. And it said swift action is needed, as current trends show an increased rate of adverse health experiences for black, Asian and minority ethnic women. Statistics show that black women are more than five times more likely to...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Mar 10, 2020

Seven principles for public office holders

High standards ‘should be not only consistently observed but also demonstrably valued’. In September 2019 the Committee on Standards in Public Life published an open letter to all public office holders on the importance of maintaining high standards and of implementing the seven Nolan Principles. We thought we would post about it here today. The Committee on Standards in Public Life advises the Prime Minister on ethical standards across the whole of public life in England. It...