Sector Conversation with Against Violence and Abuse (AVA)

In this Sector Conversation, we're meeting Karen and Lucy from AVA - one of the Ascent Support Services to Organisations partners. Karen and Lucy are discussing the relationship and collaborations between local authorities and the women sector.

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Meet the Funder: GLA and the Building Strong Communities Fund

Are you part of and/or work with a community that has been badly affected by COVID-19, socially or economically? Do you have a great idea for a project to help rebuild community strength, voice, and/or connection? Perhaps you already run a successful programme that you are ready to expand - to benefit more people or to reach new groups.
The pathologising of women survivors of male violence by family court experts – April 2022.

This review was requested by the Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) as a contribution to the struggle to make family courts accountable to both the public and professionals (McFarlane, 2021: 6). The focus of this report is the pathologisation of women survivors of male violence, particularly domestic violence, by family court and their appointed professionals which contributes to evidence used to remove their children.
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