Advance response to the National Policing Statement 2024 on VAWG
Our latest report, “Her Story, Her Justice”, demonstrates how Advance’s Whole Justice Approach can drastically improve outcomes for victims and hold perpetrators to account. Read the National Policing Statement 2024 on VAWG Media enquiries For more information, please contact Tracie Couper, Press Officer at Advance, at tracie.c@advancecharity.org.uk or on 0743 2700 287. Advance’s specialist advocates […]
Advance responds to the State Opening of Parliament 2024
To achieve this, it is important that any plan to do so is created in consultation with the specialist women’s voluntary sector, as well as the Domestic Abuse Commissioner and the Victim’s Commissioner, to ensure that this legislation works for victim-survivors of abuse and trauma. The Government must avoid empty words by backing up their […]
Finsbury Park Singers raise funds for domestic abuse charity Advance.
Money raised will go to Advance’s Women’s Centres and campaigning work to reduce violence against women and girls. Funds will help Advance’s Women’s Centre in Finsbury Park support women with experience of domestic abuse and those with experience of the criminal justice system break the cycle of reoffending. Choir member, local architect and mum, Jo […]
Advance Hampshire Women’s Centre celebrates milestone
The centre, in Portsmouth, offers specialist support to women who are in contact with the criminal justice system, and who may also be experiencing or have experienced domestic abuse. The 3rd birthday celebrations were attended by staff, women who use the centre, and representatives from partner services including Probation and Portsmouth City Council. Charlotte Ferguson, […]
Advance Statement on Early and Automatic Releases
We strongly urge the Government to consider applying changes with the women’s estate, as well as the men’s. Evidence proves that custodial sentences often do not work to break the cycle of offending for women who are in contact with the criminal justice system, most of whom have underlying needs which drive their offending behaviour […]
Advance Statement on the Newly Appointed Cabinet
We want to extend a warm welcome to the new Cabinet. Yvette Cooper MP, as the new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, as the Lord High Chancellor, and Richard Herner KC, as the Attorney General, have the power to implement fundamental changes to the ways in which the criminal justice system responds to women. Bridget Phillipson […]