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Welsh Women's Aid Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
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Codes of practice

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's codes of practice and its Codes of Practice Working Party, including office policy and procedures manuals dated November 1994 and October 2001; details of legal structures and constitutions dated July 1993; codes of practice implementation policy dated April 1993; eviction policy dated September 1999 and another undated; and undated disciplinary policy.

Children and family

Material relating to children and families, particularly those housed within Welsh Women's Aid refuges. Includes details relating to the rôle of the childworker within Welsh Women's Aid and records of childworker meetings. Press cuttings (of which there are a significant number) kept in separate folder; printed booklets and leaflets kept in separate envelopes.

Children and family

ONE ITEM IS CLOSED FOR 100 YEARS FROM DATE OF LAST ENTRY. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 EXEMPTION (SECTION 40) (PERSONAL INFORMATION).

Material relating to children and families, particularly those housed within Welsh Women's Aid refuges, including staff codes of practice and guidelines, records of Welsh Women's Aid Children's Group meetings, reports, press cuttings and printed information booklets aimed at both children and adults. Newspaper cuttings kept in marked envelope.

Children and family

Material relating to the support and protection of children and young people living with their mother in Women's Aid refuges, with particular reference to Women's Aid's Children Matter campaign, which tackles domestic and sexual violence and other forms of abuse against children and young people. Included are children and young people's information and activity booklets, children's own responses to domestic violence and to living in a refuge and photocopied photographs of children's day-to-day lives within a refuge, together with a report relating to awareness campaigns aimed at schools.

Cardiff Women's Aid Archive

* ONE ITEM UNDER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN EMBARGOED UNTIL 2081 **

Papers donated by the Cardiff branch of Welsh Women's Aid. They include material relating to the constitution, corporate structure and service development of Welsh Women's Aid; reports and statistics, records of meetings and conference information; material relating to funding and fundraising, training and recruitment; and information, guidelines and discussion relating to issues affecting women and children, such as domestic violence, law and legislation and social welfare issues.

Note that not all material contained within this section may be directly related to the donor (Cardiff) branch.

Jane Hutt (b. 1949) was one of the founder members of Welsh Women's Aid and was appointed as coordinator of the group in January 1978. She is currently (September 2021) a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Minister for Social Justice since 2021. In her capacity as Welsh Women's Aid co-ordinator, Jane Hutt is frequently referenced throughout this archive.

Branch archives

** A SECTION OF MONTGOMERYSHIRE WOMEN'S AID AND ONE ITEM UNDER RADNORSHIRE WOMEN'S AID ARE CLOSED FOR 82 YEARS FROM DATE OF LAST ENTRY. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 EXEMPTION (SECTION 40) (PERSONAL INFORMATION). ***

Papers from the archives of Cardigan Women's Aid, Carmarthen Women's Aid, Montgomeryshire Women's Aid/Montgomeryshire Women's Centre and Radnorshire Women's Aid, all (excluding Montgomeryshire Women's Centre) being branches of Welsh Women's Aid.

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