Police unable to keep tabs on all ‘monitored’ sex offenders due to officer shortages Express, 15 June 2024, Jon Austen A senior coroner said there is now a “postcode lottery” of risk from more than 91,000 criminals who require regular checks. CONVICTED sex offenders released from jail are not being properly monitored because of police …
Two Wiltshire Police officers faced a disciplinary hearing following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). Rod Minchin, The Independent, June 2024 Two police officers who failed to adequately investigate an allegation of abuse by serial rapist David Carrick five years before the former constable was first arrested have been given final …
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has pledged to end misogyny in the Met Police in the wake of a series of damning reports following the Wayne Couzens scandal. By JON AUSTIN Sat, Jun 8, 2024 WOMEN’S campaigners have hit out after two police officers who touched younger female colleagues during drinking sessions kept their jobs. Commissioner …
Evidence to the Home Office Consultation on Police strip search of children from Women Against Rape and Women of Colour GWS We call for an end to police strip searching of all children under the age of 18, in police custody or schools or anywhere else – it’s state child abuse. 1. Police should not …
Campaigners worry women seeking asylum are being harmed and wrongly refused claims for protection. Women seeking asylum after experiencing rape are reporting further traumatisation by the Home Office’s interviewing process. At these meetings, women recall being forced to rehash the sexual violence they have experienced to interviewers they believe to be insensitive to their trauma. …
Tell the Home Office to stop police strip searching children Stop police strip searching our children! This is State sexual abuse. 650 children strip searched by Met Police in 2 years. If this happened to you, a friend or a family member we want to hear from you. Watch our video of shocking stats from the …
Evidence to Reem Alsalem UN Rapporteur on Violence Against Women & Girls In this paper we draw from our experiences as a grassroots organisation and from published facts and research. We focus on the following areas of interest outlined in the Rapporteur’s Call for Evidence: access to the law, and redress, legal protection that prevents perpetrators repeating …
Submission from Support Not Separation, Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign & Women Against Rape to OFSTED re its inspection of CAFCASS. Together we have worked for decades with mothers fighting to keep their children (Legal Action for Women was founded in 1982). In the last 10 years a growing movement of mothers, especially single mothers, struggling …
Issued jointly by Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign, Support Not Separation and Women Against Rape, March 2024. We are very glad that the Special Rapporteur is carrying out this consultation. We have worked for many decades with mothers fighting to keep their children (Legal Action for Women was founded in 1982). In the last 10 years a growing …
Response to Ministry of Justice Review of Civil Legal Aid Summary: The crisis in legal aid and its impact on some of the most vulnerable members of our society is not being monitored by government agencies responsible for providing effective access to justice. The results of the crisis, some of which we have described above, …
