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domestic abuse

October 4, 2020

Age UK calls on Government to fix Domestic Abuse Bill blind spot

The Crime Survey of England and Wales only gathers data on domestic abuse from people up to the age of 74.
August 30, 2020

Northern Ireland domestic violence figures highest since records began

Amnesty International says that funding for victim support organisations from the Northern Ireland Executive needs to match the scale of the problem.
June 17, 2020

Legal loophole leaves children facing homelessness to look after themselves

The charity Just for Kids Law regularly works with children who are denied their right to be taken into care despite being homeless.
May 19, 2020

Charities raise alarm over funding crisis facing children's social care

Councils can now only afford to get involved when children have reached crisis point and need costly interventions, like being taken into care.
April 16, 2020

Call for urgent government action to keep babies and young children safe

In some areas, staff who would normally safeguard babies have been redeployed to repsond to the COVID-19 crisis.
March 4, 2020

Domestic abuse survivors lose over £7 billion through abusers intercepting post

Citizens Advice has found that almost half of survivors of domestic abuse have had their post intercepted, opened or hidden by the perpetrator.
December 3, 2019

Politicians urged to solve social problems leaving children 'scarred for life’

Organisations say children are being "crowded out"of the discussion of the nation’s future, leaving their needs overlooked and their voices unheard.
November 28, 2019

Coercive control offences have almost doubled in the past year

In the year ending March 2019, an estimated 1.6 million women aged 16 to 74 years experienced domestic abuse.
November 4, 2019

No Government should accept consequences of two child limit, says Committee

The Government’s justifications for its policy to restrict support to two children are based on assumptions that “simply do not hold true” says the Work and Pensions Select Committee.
November 3, 2019

Launch of letter-writing campaign to support young people facing human rights abuses

Volunteers arrested for rescuing refugees in Greece and a young Iranian woman rights activist sentenced to 10 years in jail are among those to receive support.