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Project Summary
Agenda
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A cross-sector alliance working to change the way services respond to women and girls who have experienced extensive abuse and multiple disadvantage.
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Blog Post
‘I’m no criminal’ – prostitution and criminal records
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Last week nia, a women’s support organisation, published I’m no criminal, which makes a powerful case that the continued existence and disclosure of prostitution-related criminal records is ‘discriminatory, arbitrary, irrational and...
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Blog Post
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The Synergi Collaborative Centre It felt like quite a moment last week to be announcing the establishment of the Synergi Collaborative Centre and our partnership with Queen Mary, University of London, University of Manchester and Words of...
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Blog Post
Severe and Multiple Disadvantage for Women and Girls – what difference does gender make?
Read moreThe term ‘disadvantage’ is widely used and we all know what it means. Or do we? What sorts of things get defined as disadvantages in the first place? And given that disadvantages rarely feature singly in peoples’ lives, what are the...
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Publication
Women and Girls Facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage
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Our new report ‘Women and Girls Facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage’, is an exploration of different frameworks for describing and measuring severe and multiple disadvantage in the lives of women and girls. The research was...
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News Story
Women in the criminal justice system: new Griffins Society reports
Read moreThe Griffins Society sponsors research to bring about change in how women and girls are dealt with in the criminal justice system. Griffins Society fellowships – supported by Lankelly Chase – give frontline workers the opportunity to design...
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Commencing Countdown, Engines On (new partnerships taking off in 2016)
Read moreNew partners join the pioneering Promoting Change Movement in 2016, helping us all understand how effective support can reach those who are most marginalised, experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage.
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News Story
How can we create a system that responds to human beings?
Read moreThe answer should be simple, after all it’s in our DNA but in reality systems rather than the people who use and work within them have become the driving force behind them.
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Blog Post
Hard Edges
Read more12 stories. All from people who live on the hard edges of society. All from people who have faced hardship so extreme, you listen and can’t help to wonder how they are sitting in front of you today. All with aspirations. All with grievances....
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Publication
Promoting Change: The Voices and Needs of Sheffield Girls
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Off the back of the Together Women Project (TWP)'s work with women, they have repeatedly found that many of the women they work with started taking turns for the worse around the ages of twelve to thirteen. As a result, TWP, with the support of...