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Double your donation to Women’s Groups and Services via the Women and Girls Match Fund

From 6th to 13th October 2026 only A seven-day online match funding campaign working with exceptional charities dedicated to serving the women and girls in our communities, fostering a future […]

Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care 2026 – Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2022-24

This is the compiled materials for the 2026 MBRRACE-UK Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care annual report published on the 10th September 2026. The full compiled 2026 report including all supplementary […]

Gender pensions gap effectively means retired women go 4 months a year without a pension – TUC

Retired women get a third less pension than men – an income gap of more than £7,000 a year. Women approaching retirement have built up half the workplace pension of […]

New law will create a specific offence for making, selling or owning child-like sexual abuse dolls, with jail terms of up to 5 years – Home Office

The government has backed a new law banning depraved child-like sexual abuse dolls. The Child-like Sexual Abuse Dolls (Offences) Private Members’ Bill, which progressed to committee stage, will make it […]

Equality impact assessment – Office for Equality and Opportunity & EHRC

As per the Equality Act 2006, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), may issue a code of practice in connection with any matter addressed by the Equality Act 2010. […]

First UK-wide clinical guidelines for paediatric non-fatal strangulation launched to transform the clinical response – IFAS

Download the Guidelines here Download the Information Leaflet here The Institute for Addressing Strangulation (IFAS) has recently published the UK’s first Guidelines for clinical management of paediatric (under 16) non-fatal […]