DVCN - Domestic Violence Co-ordinators Network

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5th March 2013

Incorporating women's health needs into Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

The Women’s Health and Equality Consortium (WHEC) have launched ‘Better Health for Women: How to incorporate women’s health needs into Joints Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies’. This document is intended to support health and well-being boards to improve health outcomes for women and girls by offering vital information, evidence and examples of good practice for undertaking Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) and developing Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWSs).


JSNAs and JHWSs must assess and aim to meet the needs at the local level and there are particular issues that impact on women and girls’ health and wellbeing that need to be taken into account if services are to be effective for everyone.


You can find the full report here.



  

22nd January 2013

Is your refuge 'service exempt'? Supported housing and exemption from the Benefit Cap Universal Credit regulations published

The Department for Work and Pensions announced that (in the short term at least) payments for 'exempt accommodation'...

15th January 2013

26 January 2013 13:00 ~ FREE Violence Against Disabled Women Presentation - WiseWomen Glasgow in partnership with GCVS

For people interested in issues surrounding discrimination, violence and abuse

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