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Welsh Women's Aid Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales) Ffeil / File English
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Law and legislation / Police

** 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.

Law and legislation/Police

Material relating to law and legislation and the police as they apply to the work of Welsh Women's Aid. Includes material relating to the Family Law Bill of 1995 and subsequent Family Law Act of 1996, and also to the ill-fated Family Homes and Domestic Violence Bill of 1995. Welsh Women's Aid's response to the Family Law Bill 1995 forms part of the Police and Legal Group mailings (kept in separate envelope). Press cuttings, of which there are a significant number, kept in separate folder; printed booklets and leaflets kept in separate envelope.

Llandrindod & Builth Wells Women's Aid/South Powys Women's Aid/Radnorshire Women's Aid branch archives

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.

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