Policy Submissions
Addressing the Legacy of Northern Ireland’s Past
Women’s Aid response to NIO consultation on dealing with the pastLeaving Prostitution: statutory review
A review of the Programme for Assistance and Support for those seeking to exit prostitutionMental Heath Services Framework consultation
Recommendations on how domestic violence and abuse should inform the health & social care response to mental health service provisionDomestic Homicide Reviews consultation
Women’s Aid recommendations for how Domestic Homicide Reviews might function in Northern Ireland.Education Authority Strategic Plan
WAFNI response to Education Authority Strategic planThe 2 child tax credit cap and ‘rape clause’
Opposing the two child cap and rape clause A briefing paper on issues relating to the 2-child tax credit cap and ‘rape clause’, published by the Women’s Policy Group Northern… Read more →Consultation on Safe Access to Healthcare Services
WAFNI response to consultation on Safe Access to Healthcare Services A response to Clare Bailey MLA’s consultation on safe access to healthcare services, and proposed buffer zones around reproductive health… Read more →Adoption & Children’s Bill – a response
Adoption and Children NI Bill A response from WAFNI on the Adoption & Children’s Bill for Northern Ireland.Listen Up Government! Capturing the voices of children and young people in NI
Listen Up Government – children and young people’s response to the draft NI strategy for CYP Women’s Aid consulted with children and young people in our services about what they… Read more →Children & Young People’s Strategy
WAFNI response to Children and Young People’s Stategy NISafeguarding Board Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy
WAFNI response to Safeguarding Board NI Policies and ProceduresDraft Policing Plan 2017-18
WAFNI response to Draft Northern Ireland Policing Plan 2017-18 A response to the draft Policing Plan for Northern Ireland 2017-18Review of Family Justice: Further Evidence
WAFNI further evidence to family justice review group Supplementary written evidence supplied to Lord Justice Gillen and the Family Justice Review GroupNorthern Ireland Housing Executive Homelessness Strategy
NIHE homelessness strategy consultation response A response to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive’s draft Homelessness StrategyPfG Outcome 7: We have a safe community where we respect the law and each other
WAFNI repsonse to PfG outcome 7 delivery plans A response to DOJ’s delivery plan for Outcome 7 of the Programme for Government.Written evidence to Justice Committee – Stalking
WAFNI Stalking evidence for Justice Committee Evidence to the Justice Committee on a potential stalking law for Northern Ireland.Draft Programme For Government response
Draft Programme for Government responseProposals to withdraw statistics compendia on age and gender
Proposals for withdrawal of compendia on ‘A profile of older people in Northern Ireland’ and ‘Gender Equality Statistics’Protect Life 2: A strategy for Suicide Prevention
WAFNI response to Protect Life 2 Suicide strategyThe Review Group’s Draft Report on Family Justice
WAFNI response to Review of Family JusticeVoluntary Community and Social Enterprise Sector Funding Model consultation
Women’s Aid Federation NI VCSE Funding Response FormDraft Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery strategy consultation
WAFNI response to Trafficking & Modern Slavery Strategy 2016-17 – FINAL – 9 September 2016PPS Victim and Witness Policy consultation
PPS Victim & Witness Policy consultationProgramme for Government Framework consultation
Women’s Aid NI response to the draft Programme for Government Framework.Improving Health within Criminal Justice
Women’s Aid NI response to consultation on improving health of people in the criminal justice system.Consultation on Innovation Grant Scheme
Women’s Aid NI response to Department of Health consultation on an Innovation Grant Scheme.Consultation on a domestic abuse offence and domestic violence disclosure scheme
Women’s Aid NI response to DOJ consultation on a domestic abuse offence, coercive control, and Clare’s Law for Northern Ireland.A Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme for NI
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that does not have a domestic violence disclosure scheme. A DVDS is a scheme that allows people to ask police if… Read more →Coercive Control: Why we need to change the law
Domestic violence is about so much more than physical violence. It is a pattern of control and manipulation driven by deeply-held beliefs of entitlement. Find out more about coercive control… Read more →Policing Plan 2016-17
Women’s Aid response to consultation on the draft Policing Plan for 2016/17.