Dangos 260 canlyniad

ONE ITEM IS CLOSED FOR 82 YEARS FROM DATE OF LAST ENTRY. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 EXEMPTION (SECTION 40) (PERSONAL INFORMATION).

Papers of Radnorshire Women's Aid (which appears to have previously been known as South Powys Women's Aid - see letter dated 16 June 1989; there are also two (undated, but apparently earlier) letters headed 'Llandrindod & Builth Wells Women's Aid'), including Annual Reports, 1990-1996; correspondence relating to complaints made against Radnorshire Women's Aid and against one staff member in particular (embargoed); correspondence relating to funding and other matters; accounts and statistics; and records of meetings.

Draft and fair-copy material relating to Welsh Women's Aid process of staff recruitment, including job advertisements, job descriptions and employment contracts.

Material (divided into two large boxes: 1979-1999 and 2000-2002) relating to Welsh Women's Aid's ongoing strategies to obtain funding for the continued running and upkeep of refuges, mostly comprising information regarding potential sources of funding, together with questionnaires and application forms; and records of Welsh Women's Aid's Funding Strategy Working Party. In a smaller box are a series of Welsh Women's Aid Member Group Service Provision draft reports for 2001-2002.

Material relating to the establishment and upkeep of Welsh Women's Aid's telephone helpline, including a significant number of items relating to the Northern Ireland Women's Aid helpline service.

Material relating to domestic violence and violence against women in general, including resource information; reports and statistics; press cuttings; and material relating to victim support projects and to campaigns by the Justice for Women movement to free Kiranjit Ahluwalia, Porn Enticknap, Emma Humphreys, Sara Thornton and other women convicted and imprisoned for killing abusive husbands or partners. Together with papers relating to the Powys Domestic Abuse Forum (held in folder), which include records of Forum meetings.

** TWO ITEMS ARE CLOSED FOR 82 YEARS FROM DATE OF LAST ENTRY. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 EXEMPTION (SECTION 40) (PERSONAL INFORMATION). ***

Material relating to law and legislation and the police as they apply to the work of Welsh Women's Aid. Includes records of Welsh Women's Aid Police and Legal Group meetings, 1989-1997; material relating to the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976, the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates Courts Act 1978 and the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984; material relating to the Local Government Bill of 1985, which became the Local Government Act 1985 and to the Legal Aid Bill of 1988, which became the Legal Aid Act 1988; response to the Home Office report on domestic violence, June 1989; material relating to the Family Courts Campaign; records of meetings, seminars and conferences; internal and external correspondence; and press cuttings.

There are references to Erin Pizzey, founder of the first shelters for abused women in and around London, who later significantly modified her views on domestic violence and became an advocate for men's rights.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid staff membership of what was then known as the Manufacturing, Science and Finance (MSF) Union.

Papers relating to Quality Assurance standards within Welsh Women's Aid, comprising Quality Assurance Working Party reports and a Strategy for Quality Assurance dated July 2002.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's periodic three-year plans for service development.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid process of staff recruitment, including job advertisements, job descriptions and employment contracts.

General reports and statistics relating to Welsh Women's Aid, including research projects; completed questionnaires sent out to Women's Aid branches within Wales, together with an analysis of the results; and statistics relating to individual branches of Women's Aid within Wales.

Records of Welsh Women's Aid South Wales groups regional meetings, 1983-2000.

Records of Welsh Women's Aid Mid Wales groups regional meetings, 2000-2001.

Material relating to the Welsh Women's Aid conference held at Builth Wells, 11-12 September 1982.

Material relating to the Welsh Women's Aid national conference held at Llandrindod Wells, 25-27 September 1987, including details of the Welsh Women's Aid Annual General Meeting held at the venue during the weekend.

Report by Welsh Women's Aid delegate on the Women's Aid Federation of England (WAFE) conference held in Sheffield, July 1989.

Material relating to the Welsh Women's Aid national conference held in Caerleon, 20-22 September 1991.

Material relating to the Welsh Women's Aid national conference held in Llanbadarn Fawr, 11-12 September 1993.

Material relating to the Welsh Women's Aid inter-agency conference entitled 'Making it Happen' held in Cwmbran, 20 May 1998; also material relating to the Welsh Women's Aid national conference held in Bangor, 12-13 September 1998.

Material relating to social and council housing and housing legislation, particularly in the context of housing for women fleeing domestic abuse. Includes funding applications and housing questionnaires dating from 1977.