Category: Newyddion

Too soon for Christmas………Never Hello! Christmas Card Making Competition for women and children in refuge and in the community Christmas talk is in the air once more. We thought it would be a great idea to encourage a little bit of Christmas card making activity for women and children in refuge. The aim is to […]

Welsh Women’s Aid (WWA) would like to praise the recent BBC Three drama ‘Murdered By My Boyfriend’, a retelling of the true story of a young British women suffering years of domestic abuse who is eventually murdered by her partner in front of their young daughter.

This week the Supreme Court hears a landmark appeal about domestic violence, fatal violence against women and police accountability.  The Supreme Court has granted permission to Welsh Women’s Aid (WWA) to intervene in the case.

On June 5th, Carl Seargant AM (Minister for Housing) and Winston Roddick (North Wales PCC) visited the first self contained refuge in North Wales.

Welsh Women’s Aid is pleased to announce that Eleri Butler MBE has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the organisation and will be joining us from January 2015 to help us grow further as the lead organization working to end violence against women and domestic abuse in Wales. Our first priority is always […]

Welsh Women’s Aid welcomes the Welsh Government’s ‘Gender Based Violence, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Bill’ which has been introduced to the National Assembly for Wales today. This Bill presents a significant opportunity for Wales to lead the way in the UK in reducing and preventing domestic abuse, sexual violence and all forms of […]

Local Government Minister, Lesley Griffiths AM voiced her support for a campaign tackling domestic abuse in Wrexhamon Friday the 22nd of May. Reducing incidence of Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence and repeat victimisation is a priority for the Welsh Government and for Wrexham Community Safety Partnership. A critical part of the Partnership’s work is to increase […]

Professor Graham Donaldson is actively seeking views and opinions for his review of the national curriculum and assessment arrangements. WWA will be submitting evidence around the need for a Whole School Approach to ending VAW through compulsory initiatives and support for pupils, as outlined in the White Paper on the ‘Ending Violence Against Women, Domestic […]

An independent review has been published about violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence services in Wales, commissioned by the Welsh Government concludes that violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence are entrenched, widespread and complex problems whose extent, nature and consequences have only recently begun to be widely recognised.

The Communities, Equalities and Local Government Committee have issued advance notice of the committee process for consideration of the ‘Ending Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Bill’ which is to be laid on June 9th.

Rashida Manjoo, the UN’s Special Rapporteur for VAW concluded her mission to the UK last month, including a visit to Wales. WWA was privileged to be able to facilitate a meeting between Rashida and third sector organisations and to arrange a visit to some of our member’s front line services to see the situation on […]

Become a member of Welsh Women’s Aid! WWA’s portfolio of activities has expanded over the years, with work further extending from membership Services and Policy and Campaigning, to incorporate service delivery, early intervention, capacity building and sector development.

As flagged up in WWA’s newsletters, changes to Housing Benefit rules for refuge residents (previously defined as ‘exempt accommodation’) have now been published. They include a broader definition that should include most refuge services. This is good news and represents the results of more than eighteen months work for Welsh Women’s Aid and its members […]

Back in 2013 changes to family law legal aid meant that many people were no longer able to access legal help, although victims of domestic violence were still allowed access through the ‘Domestic Violence Gateway’ which allowed a limited number of limited types of ‘evidence’. Welsh Women’s Aid and Women’s Aid Federation England teamed up […]

WWA is honoured to be hosting a meeting between the VAW third sector in Wales and the visiting UN Special Rapporteur for VAW, Rashida Manjoo, who is visiting the UK on an official mission this month. If you would like to take part in the meeting, which is being held on the 10th of April […]

Although much of it makes for stark and concerning reading, Welsh Women’s Aid welcomes today’s report released by HMIC ‘Everyone’s Business: Improving the Police Response to Domestic Abuse’. For many years Welsh Women’s Aid have remained concerned by some Police responses to domestic abuse, which has often been treated as a second class crime. This […]