A course in schools, youth justice departments and youth centres aims to prevent violence against women and girls.
I see domestic abuse everywhere – but people still don't understand what it is
Kelly Mattison teaches young women that it’s not their fault if their partner abuses them.
Free thinking
The thought processes behind male-on-male violence and domestic abuse are similar, say experts. A new course aiming to break the link by challenging the attitudes of young males is proving successful.
How interviewing successful care leavers taught young people to dream big
A video project created by members of York’s children in care council challenges the negative stigma they experience.
Situation Kritikal
Hip-hop artist speaks after taking overdose
'Now I feel free': why social workers must be ready to help care leavers forgive
It can be hard when justifying why a child should be in care, but professionals shouldn’t judge parents because forgiveness is empowering .
Family matters
Kelly Mattison reports on the closure of an accommodation centre that has been helping homeless mothers and their young children for 30 years
Enemy within
The emotional scars of witnessing domestic violence can stay with children for a lifetime increasing the risk they may go on to be abusers themselves.
New support for women prisoners and their families
Justice minister Simon Hughes has announced that women in custody will be given help to maintain vital ties with their families through the introduction of family engagement workers in prisons.
Recent changes to the 1974 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act will reduce the prejudice exoffenders face when applying for jobs but they “do not go far enough”, warns Christopher Stacey, director of services at Unlock, a national charity for people with convictions.
Schools are short-staffed because teachers are being suspended if they live with someone who has committed a serious offence, according to the trade union Unison.
“I had been in and out of prison for ten years"
Tadge Sulich was eight years old when he committed his first crime. He went with a group of teenagers from his family to Woolworths, where they stole whatever they wanted. Sulich went for Lego and pick ’n’ mix. “Obviously what a kid would want,”
The chief inspector of prisons has described the state of women held in a special unit at a Cheshire prison as more shocking and distressing than anything he has ever seen on inspection.
‘I run out of money a day or two after I get paid’
Shelby’s bed is broken, she has no cooker and she drinks coffee to numb her permanent hunger. She’s just one of the young women featured in new documentary Growing Up Poor.
A national scheme to improve the safety of sex workers by telling them about dangerous punters is to be run from Manchester.
Women search for hope in a war-scarred state
Former Coronation Street stars Sally Lindsay and Suranne Jones visited conflict-riven Congo last month where rapes and the brutality of crimes against women are described as the worst in the world.
Rehabilitation courses denied to prisoners with learning disabilities
Prisoners with learning disabilities are spending more time in jail than necessary because they cannot take part in education designed to help them reduce their offending behaviour.
People will bully you because your house isn't fancy like theirs
Four children share their insights on life below the poverty line in a BBC TV programme.
A pregnant teenager with a black eye and tear-stained face is shoved and yelled at by her possessive older boyfriend, while she wonders whether or not to leave him.
Michelle Molloy suffered so violently at the hands of her partner that she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. This is her powerful story.