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Rights of WomenTraining courses 2012For more info contact the training officer. We provide training for organisations on essential issues concerning women's rights.
These practical and interactive courses are essential for anyone who supports or provides services to women affected by violence and abuse. Our trainers are specialist women solicitors or barristers who are experts in these areas of law. Our courses are accredited by the Law Society and Bar Council. When you attend our training, in addition to receiving comprehensive course materials you will also be given free copies of relevant Rights of Women books to enable you to use the knowledge you have gained in the training in your work. Getting the basics: an introduction to family law With the government's proposal to limit access to legal aid and to remove public funding for divorce and private law children matters, this one day course, which provides the basics of family law, is vital in order to give you the knowledge to help women to understand their rights and to assist them to access these through the law. The morning session aims to clarify the law on divorce and financial relief including the legal process, the range of orders the court can make and the legal principals applied when deciding how property and money is to be divided. As well as explaining the legal position for women who are not married or in a civil partnership, further to relationship breakdown, including their rights to property. The afternoon session will look at financial provision for children, followed by an overview of the Children Act 1989 and the law on child contact and residence. Finally, the course will examine how women experiencing domestic violence can get protection through the law including non-molestation, occupation orders, forced marriage protection orders and restraining orders.
FREE COURSE - Seeking refuge? The asylum process and financial support for asylum seeking women - in partnership with the Asylum Support Appeals Project Asylum-seeking women are some of the most marginalised and vulnerable women in our society, caught up in an incomprehensible system that will determine whether or not they can secure protection in the UK or be returned to their country of origin. This unique and innovative one-day course, which we are delivering in partnership with the Asylum Support Appeals Project, is a practical and insightful introduction to the asylum process and asylum support law. The course focuses specifically on the needs of asylum-seeking women who are, or have experienced, gender-based violence and provides an introduction to the asylum process and the financial support options available to women who are seeking, or have been refused, asylum. Each participant will receive a full resource pack and copies of Trafficking, sexual exploitation and the law and Rights of Women’s latest research report, Silenced voices speak: strategies for protecting migrant women from violence and abuse.
Breaking the cycle: using civil and criminal remedies to protect women from violence All too often women receive only partial information as to their legal options when experiencing domestic violence. This popular course has been compiled so that you gain a full knowledge of legal remedies possible for victims of domestic violence and learn how to tailor your advice on available options for each individual woman you are supporting. You will be provided with a thorough knowledge of non-molestation and occupation orders, including enforcement options and how to apply. An evaluation of remedies available from the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 will also be given. You will then be guided through the available criminal law remedies and will receive specific opportunities to increase your knowledge of protections available to victims in criminal law proceedings. The course has been updated to include a legal overview of the newly piloted Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs), crucial information for anyone supporting victims of domestic violence.
Supporting survivors of sexual violence Understand the provisions of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and how it applies to victims of rape and sexual assault with this fully interactive and well-established course. The course aims to make often complicated law accessible and furthermore examines the criminal justice process in detail along with crucial support available for survivors of sexual violence who choose to report to the police. This course has been extended and updated to include the law and support for victims of historical sexual abuse – often a difficult area of law, and also makes use of new materials to give participants the relevant knowledge and skills to support a victim applying for criminal injuries compensation.
Protecting children from domestic violence: children and the law This one day course will enable you to support survivors of domestic violence by helping you to understand and clarify the complex public and private law that relates to children. The morning session will investigate the key concept of parental responsibility and then focus on local authority involvement with children in domestic violence cases, explaining care and supervision proceedings, adoption and special guardianship. In the afternoon we will focus on the law on contact and residence, with a focus on the court’s approach to domestic violence and child contact. We will then examine the practice and procedure of contact proceedings and clarify the new enforcement procedures brought about by the Children and Adoption Act 2006.
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Through training we enable individuals and agencies to ensure that they are properly informed about protecting women's rights effectively.
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