At Women’s Centre Derry, education, support and connection help women build confidence, access opportunities and recognise that their health, wellbeing and safety matter. Women’s lives do not fit neatly into separate categories. Health, mental wellbeing, safety, caring responsibilities, education and financial circumstances all influence one another. Our work recognises these connections, offering women opportunities to […]

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ending the Need for Food Banks (APPG ENFB) at Westminster invited evidence for an inquiry into how the level of support offered by Universal Credit is decided. Siobhán made a response to this Inquiry highlighting the situation for women and families in Northern Ireland where there are reduced levels of […]

The Department of Justice is consulting on proposed reforms to the use of good character references at sentencing in criminal proceedings.  The law currently requires a court when determining a person’s sentence for a criminal offence, to consider mitigating factors, which can include evidence of the accused’s good character.  This can take the form of […]

Guarantee our Essentials Siobhán is part of a campaign from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Trussell calling for an Essentials Guarantee within Universal Credit.  The Essentials Guarantee would embed in the social security system a principle that at a minimum Universal Credit should protect people from going without essentials. Siobhán has been working as part […]

Campaigns:  Guarantee our Essentials Siobhán is part of a campaign from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Trussell Trust calling for an Essentials Guarantee within Universal Credit.  The Essentials Guarantee would embed in the social security system a principle that at a minimum Universal Credit should protect people from going without essentials. You can read […]