Just 4% of local councils in England have a formal maternity, paternity or parental leave policy in place for councillors, finds a July 2017 Fawcett Society report.
Four years ago, the then government implemented the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO). In June 2017, the Law Society conducted a review of the legal aid changes introduced under the act.
The Children’s Rights Alliance (CRAE) has published two child-friendly resources on children’s rights.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published its July 2017 report on minimum income standards.
‘Women are bearing the brunt of socio economic cuts in all their forms’, writes Emma Patterson-Bennett in a Brexit LawNI Project blog on Brexit and women.
