by Gail Bishop | Apr 28, 2023
Submitted by: The Prison Reform Trust and NCW Social and Employment Policy Committee The National Council of Women noting with concern the disproportionate numbers of children in care, or who have experienced care, who are involved in the criminal justice system in...
by Gail Bishop | Apr 28, 2023
Submitted by: NCW Health Committee NCW, aware that Types 1,2 and 3 of Female Genital Mutilation are clearly observable and recordable but that other forms of FGM are not, urges HMG to give a category of FGM Type 4 to those other forms of abuse. This would give...
by Gail Bishop | Apr 28, 2023
Submitted by: NCW Darlington & District Branch NCW urges HM Government to take steps to ensure that: The number of women being given a prison sentence is reduced The quality and quantity of alternatives to a prison sentence, for women and especially for women with...
by Gail Bishop | Apr 28, 2023
Submitted by: The Josephine Butler Society and The Salvation Army NCW in Conference assembled urges the Home Office to undertake a statutory consultation in relation to historical soliciting offences and the permanent marking of disclosure and barring service (DBS)...
by Gail Bishop | Sep 11, 2022
The National Council of Women in Conference assembled while welcoming the interest of the Home Secretary in finding the causes of juvenile delinquency, calls on him in consultation with other government departments to investigate all possible means of impressing on...