Following last week’s episode of Call the Midwife, a group of women’s healthcare bodies have today written to BBC Action Line to ask that they reverse their decision to exclude links to abortion information on their website. The BBC Action Line website provides signposting for viewers seeking support on issues covered in their programmes The […]

The Government has a confused approach to early years education, and measures such as the 30 hours childcare commitment appear to be entrenching disadvantage, says the Education Committee in its report on early years education. Read the report summary Read the conclusions and recommendations Read the full report: Tackling disadvantage in the early years The […]

Making the link – new report publishes results of study The Disabilities Trust, in collaboration with Royal Holloway, University of London, has launched the results of the first study of its kind into brain injury in female offenders.  The report ‘Making the link: Female offenders and brain injury’ recommends a support pathway be put in […]

New figures from the Office of National Statistics show that police recorded thousands of incidents of the internet being used to commit child sexual offences in the past year. In England and Wales, between October 2017 and September 2018: police recorded more than 9,000 child sexual offences with an online element child sex crimes with […]

Petition: Fair Play For Women is calling for MPs to ensure the relevant prison rules are urgently reviewed, in full consultation with women’s organisations. Prison guidance PSI-17/2016 allows male prisoners who identity as female to be moved to a female prison at the discretion of a Transgender Case Board. No women’s organisations were consulted when […]

Women chainmakers in the Black Country in the 1900s started work at the forge as children and spent their entire lives making chains. These women had no vote, were largely illiterate, worked a 54-hour week for ‘starvation wages’, and had to take their children to work. But in the Autumn of 1910 hundreds of women […]

Not Buying It challenges the sexual exploitation of porn, prostitution, strip clubs and sexist media If you know anyone on Benefits angry about this we have Equality Rights Lawyers lined up to take on court cases on legal aid, for free. We could take a case against the CPS’ recent decision to downgrade torture porn […]

‘Upskirting’ perpetrators face two years in prison and being placed on the sex offenders register, as a new law making the act a specific criminal offence is expected to receive Royal Assent 12 February 2019. New law banning invasive practice successfully passes through Parliament Offenders now face up to two years in jail, with most […]