Tag: Welsh Government

Feminist Scorecard 2019: how feminist is the Welsh Government?

Welsh Women’s Aid, the national charity working to end all forms of violence against women and girls are concerned after the Welsh Government’s score in the new Women’s Equality Network Wales and Oxfam Cymru Feminist Scorecard 2019, released this week. The report applies a traffic light system to the Welsh Government’s progress towards achieving equality […]

Welsh Women’s Aid supports policy allowing women to take second abortion pill at home

On Friday 29 June 2018, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services, Vaughan Gething AM, has announced that there are new rules for women who are terminating pregnancy, allowing women to take the second abortion pill (Misoprostol) outside a hospital environment, for example at home. The Welsh Government said that this decision came after […]

Housing and support organisations join forces and call on AMs to back funding solution

Ten national housing and support organisations have joined forces to propose a funding solution which aims to safeguard homelessness and housing-related support services for over 60,000 of the most vulnerable people in Wales. The Housing Matters report outlines the case for a new Homelessness and Housing-Related Support Grant, which has been backed by Welsh Women’s […]