When your heart, your soul, your whole world goes missing you must feel like dying. But you hang on to the hope that your child is out there somewhere and someone knows that crucial piece of information that will make life worth living again. Missing Madeleine McCann Today, bloggers, led … Continue reading
Violence against sex workers is a crime not an occupational hazard. Should crimes against sex workers be classified as hate crimes? In 2006, police in Merseyside said sex workers were a vulnerable group of people they wanted to protect and they declared crimes against sex workers to be hate crimes. This is … Continue reading
Welcome to the European Premier of The Kite Runner brought to the stage of the Nottingham Playhouse as part of their 50th anniversary season. I’m a big fan of Khaled Hosseini. He’s the author of two of my favourite novels, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. He writes about … Continue reading
Today, 18 April, marks National Stalking Awareness Day 2013. Today many people may just be starting on a terrible journey – others may have been on that journey for quite some time. A journey where they are living in terror, afraid to turn the lights out at night, afraid to … Continue reading
‘I was a rat!’ are the words exclaimed by a lone child as he knocks on the door of a couple he has never met before. Roger, well-dressed, but lost and confused has been wandering the streets looking for food and sanctuary. Once a rat, but now a boy, that’s … Continue reading
Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, plans to privatise parts of the probation service, but how will this impact on domestic abuse cases? On 22 March 2013, the media reported on a harrowing video supposedly made by a Serbian domestic violence victim in 2012 which has gone viral. In the video entitled: ‘One photo a day … Continue reading
I know it’s an odd question but what do 10 Downing Street, Samantha Cameron and the Railway Children all have in common?
Study shows imprisoned women are often victims of male violence and the UK criminal justice system. In 2011, the number of women in prison in England and Wales stood at 4,211. Between June 2010 and June 2011, 80% of women receiving a custodial sentence had committed a non-violent offence, where … Continue reading
In the time it takes the commercial break to run in the middle of your favourite television programme, whilst you flick the switch on your kettle and make a nice hot cup of tea, one child in the UK will have run away from home. That’s one child every 5 … Continue reading
Content warning: domestic abuse It’s not just about the physical pain. While you’re waiting for him to arrive home, you anxiously tidy every last inch of the house, you make sure his dinner is cooked just the way he likes it. You make sure it will be ready at … Continue reading
Sunday 25 November 2012 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Whilst you sit at home, with your children, your family, your friends, perhaps enjoying a Sunday Roast, thousands of women in the UK, millions of women worldwide, are at risk of enduring violence and torture … Continue reading
The Mind Media Awards 2012 sponsored by Friends Life. The Mind Media Awards 2012 take place on 19th November 2012 at the BFI in London, to honour the very best portrayals and reporting of mental health problems in broadcasting, print and digital media. Now in their 19th year … Continue reading
Feminism. A word that conjures up images of women burning their bras. A word that sends men running for the hills. A word that seems to make modern women shudder. According to a recent Netmums survey only 1 in 7 considers themselves a feminist. As Britain’s largest women’s website it … Continue reading
I’m fortunate, and thankful, to be able to report I have never been burgled (and I say that whilst I am touching wood). The thought does indeed worry me. What would I do if I woke in the night to hear someone downstairs rummaging through my belongings? It’s something I … Continue reading
The Telegraph has reported that £800 million is wasted on tagging criminals. Yes, you read that right. £800million. Sounds incredible doesn’t it? Policy Exchange, authors of the report which makes such a claim also states, had ministers let probation officers monitor tagged criminals rather than private firms such as SERCO … Continue reading