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Consultation on a Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls and Foundational Action Plan

The Executive Office (TEO) have issued a consultation to seek views on the new Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls and Foundational Action Plan. This is a draft seven-year Strategic Framework to End Violence Against…
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Have Your Say: Department of Education Budget EQIA

Following the Secretary of State’s Budget 2023-24 the Department of Education has issued a consultation on its Budget 2023-24 Equality Impact Assessment.  This EQIA outlines a series of proposed cuts to the Department’s Budget including…
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Have your say: Discretionary Support

The Department for Communities (DfC) have issued an Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) on Discretionary Support.  This is an important consultation as Consortium research with women over a number of years has highlighted the importance of Discretionary…
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Healthy Start Scheme Awareness Raising

Following the launch of the research on Women’s Experiences of the Cost-of-Living Crisis, Siobhán is working with Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick and Dr Alexandra Chapman from Ulster University (who co-wrote the research paper) on a small project to…
Women’s Regional Consortium members attending the launch of the research

RESEARCH LAUNCHED – The Impact of the Cost of Living Crisis on Women in Northern Ireland

The Consortium’s latest research paper with the Ulster University Law Clinic was launched in Ulster University on 20th June.  The launch included a summary of the main points in the research as well as a number of personal insights from the…
Malala Yousafzai: "we cannot all succeed when half of us are held back"

Women and Education: we cannot all succeed when half of us are held back

Women are a hard demographic of learners to access for a reason, because they have very little free time to do anything for themselves and gaining access to mainstream Education & Training has never been easy for women.  There have always…
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Stormont cuts pose a serious threat to women’s and girls’ abilities to participate fully in the areas of education, training, and work

We are currently facing unprecedented cuts to each Executive Department which will result in incredibly harmful impacts, disproportionately impacting on the equality of women and other protected groups. Women’s place in education, training…
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Community Facilitator Programme

The Women’s Resource & Development Agency’s Award Winning Community Facilitator Programme Is coming to Coleraine. The Community Facilitator Programme will run for 8 weeks, one day a week from 9.30am – 2.30pm offering local women…
L-R: Lynn Carvill (Chief Executive, WOMEN’STEC), Jacinta Linden (Chief Executive, Bolster Community), Lorraine Acheson (Managing Director, Women in Business NI.)

Building Futures: Ambitious New Programme Launched

WOMEN’STEC, Bolster Community and Women In Business NI, have partnered to support women to secure employment opportunities in the Newry, Mourne, Down and Belfast regions. The Building Futures programme supports economically inactive women…
L-R: Lynn Carvill (Chief Executive, WOMEN’STEC), Jacinta Linden (Chief Executive, Bolster Community), Lorraine Acheson (Managing Director, Women in Business NI.)

Do you provide unpaid care or support to a family member or friend?

Carers NI has launched it's annual State of Caring survey and are encouraging local carers to take part. Every response to the survey helps to build a picture of unpaid caring experiences in Northern Ireland – highlighting the biggest…

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