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I have visited all of Women’s Breakout’s member organisations and seen for myself the amazing job that you all do. I see an incredible range of organisational diversity, but I also see an incredible amount of similarity in the services that you offer to vulnerable women with complex needs. And that is because understanding that … Continued

Some of our member organisations have raised concerns about mothers who have been prosecuted by Educational Welfare because their children have not attended school. The circumstances for some of these mothers have been really hard, and they need help and support not prosecution and custody. When a mother goes to prison, the impact on children … Continued

What are our members doing on service user engagement? We are exploring how Women’s Breakout can add to the work of our member organisations in respect of service user engagement (this will be a key theme for our annual event in June), and we hope to secure some funding to do this. We recently conducted … Continued

The women who our members work with have very often been through many traumatic experiences that have left them vulnerable and in need of great support. Often they struggle to find the support that they need until they discover or are referred to a women’s centre. We encourage our members to share the stories of … Continued

Blog post written by Linnéa Osterman, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich A thought report from the Women’s Breakout conference in Birmingham Having been invited to speak about the research I recently led with the Restorative Justice Council on Making Restorative Justice Work for Women who Offend, in the first week of September … Continued