By Inspector Allen Davis, Metropolitan Police Service Operational Lead for Harmful Practices on 07 December 2021
As the Met Police’s operational lead for female genital mutilation (FGM) and other Harmful Practices. I’ve been in this role since 2015 and a police officer for over 25 years. The benefit of having both a fair bit of service as well as experience ...
By Ella Caine on 06 December 2021
My midwifery career began more than 21 years ago when I started working clinically as a staff midwife at a large hospital in the East of England. That hospital is now an even larger teaching hospital with a tertiary level NICU, a busy and demanding ...
By Fahma Mohamed, Former Service User and Junior Trustee, Integrate UK on 05 December 2021
My journey to becoming an activist was an unusual one. Integrate UK started about the time I went to secondary school and my English teacher at the time was one of the co-founders of the charity. In school, I heard about FGM, which I knew so little ...
By Halaleh Taheri, Founder and Executive Director of the Middle Eastern Women & Society Organisation on 02 December 2021
Polygamy is not something we see an awful lot of in Britain. The vast majority of the population marries just one person at a time. When we hear of people marrying more than once without getting divorced, its newsworthy because it’s rare … and illegal! ...
By Polly Harrar, Founder, The Sharan Project on 01 December 2021
When we think of a forced marriage, we often visualise a fragile female, chained and dragged behind a much older man towards the altar. Whilst this may be a helpful visualisation of the force, coercion and control involved, the reality that so ...
on 01 December 2021
The RCM’s Director of Professional Midwifery, Dr Mary Ross-Davie, and Professional Adviser for Quality & Standards, Lia Brigante, identify longer ante- and post-partum stays as a possible root of additional pressure on maternity services
By Nikki Pound, Women’s Officer, Trades Union Congress on 30 November 2021
For too long violence against women and girls has been viewed as a private and individual matter.
By Gene Feder OBE - Professor of Primary Health Care at the Centre for Academic Primary Care, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol on 29 November 2021
Pregnancy is a time of heightened vulnerability to domestic abuse, not because it is necessarily more prevalent, but because it may start or become more severe antenatally.
By By Gill Walton, Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives and Dr Edward Morris, President of The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on 26 November 2021
16 Days of Activism is an international campaign and yearly event, coordinated by the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership, which runs from 25 November until 10 December, culminating in International Human Rights Day. The 16 Days of Activism ...
By RCM Employment Relations Advisor Alice Sorby on 17 November 2021
Just over a year ago the RCM launched its Job Evaluation Toolkit and quite rightly job evaluation and pay banding was a real focus of MSW week 2020. Fast forward 12 months and you will see it is just as important to RCM members today. We will keep supporting ...