The Crime and Policing Bill, currently in the House of Lords, contains a provision which would criminalise mothers who attempt to escape an abusive partner by going back to their home country with their children.

Read more ➡️ @filiahaguemums.bsky.social

🔗 www.hague-mothers.org.uk/2025/11/24/d...

However, @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social also say that ‘unless the Government also removes the benefit cap, some of the poorest households will see little or no gain, as any newly available support would be likely clawed back through the benefit cap’.

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www.wbg.org.uk/article/some...

Read the 🧵 by @kiritunks.bsky.social for more info on the Network: bsky.app/profile/kiri...

'Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception.'

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You can read the speeches by @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social, Francesca Platt, Greater Manchester FiLiA Women's Assembly, and Director of Policy at FiLiA, Kruti Walsh, at the link below:

🔗 filia.org.uk/latest-news/parliamentary-event

As @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social said ‘women’s voices must form a fundamental part of policy making’ and the reception was ‘intended as an introduction to an innovative approach to help make this happen, through the work of the FiLiA Women’s Assembly & Campaigns and Policy Team.’

The FiLiA Campaigns & Policy team were pleased to have formally launched the #FiLiAWomensAssembly and our new report, Making Policy Work for Women, with this event in Parliament last week, on Wednesday 19th November 2025.

Read the report here:
➡️ bit.ly/FiLiA-Making-Policy-Work-For-Women

Big thanks again to @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social for sponsoring the event and to all the MPs and Peers who made time to come along.

We can't wait to start building these relationships further.

We were also pleased to meet Baroness Lister CBE at the launch last week of our research report and of the #FiLiAWomensAssembly – thank you for coming Lady Lister.

Our thanks also to @conservatives.bsky.social peers, Baroness Sugg and Baroness Jenkin, for making time to attend our launch in Parliament.

We were also very happy to meet @katrinamurraymp.bsky.social @labouruk.bsky.social , who was interested to hear about the research in our report and the work of the #FiLiAWomensAssembly, especially in #Scotland.

Huge thanks also to Lord Young and Baroness Hayter – Lord Young spent some time talking with @kiritunks.bsky.social of the FiLiA Trade Union Women's Network.

Fantastic to meet @kittysull1.bsky.social & @tracygilbertmp.bsky.social @labouruk.bsky.social, who were both interested to hear about the diverse range of women who have signed up to the #FiLiAWomensAssembly, attending 30+ events this year, inc. in #Scotland.

Further meetings are now being planned!