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Scottish Women's Aid Lobbying Event

Scottish Women’s Aid organised a lobbying event outside the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 28th October at 10.45am.  The aim of this event was to raise awareness of the impact the impending cuts will have on women, children and young people who experience domestic abuse and in particular the impact on Women's Aid services of losing two key funding streams - the Violence Against Women Fund and the Children's Services Fund. Women's Aid workers and supporters from all over Scotland will be coming along.  The importance and potential impact of any threat to the Rape Crisis Specific Fund was also highlighted.

The women and children represented by Women’s Aid are rarely able to speak out in public about what they need from services, so the centrepiece of the event was a group of silhouettes, reminding us that women and children need services because they are not safe at home.

This marked the start of 4 weeks of local lobbying across Scotland, with events organised by local Women's Aid groups in partnership with Scottish Women’s Aid – locations for events included Inverness, Ayrshire, Glasgow and Edinburgh, as well as the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Oban and the STUC Women's Conference in Perth.