The Women’s Centre Model – The financial case for alternatives to prison
This new briefing summarises the latest evidence on the effectiveness of the Women’s Centre Model in community-based alternatives to prisons.
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This new briefing summarises the latest evidence on the effectiveness of the Women’s Centre Model in community-based alternatives to prisons.
We have responded to Work and Pension Committee inquiry on reforming Job Centres
We have responded to a consultation on Adult Social Care Reform: the Cost of Inaction
This briefing examines a human rights approach to social security for women in the UK and is in collaboration with Amnesty International UK.
We have written to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster about the independent review of the data collected and published by the ONS
WBG’s Submission to APPG on Poverty and Inequality Inquiry into the Disproportionate Impact of Poverty and Inequality on Disabled People
WBG’s alternative feminist response to a changing world
Together with other women's organisations, we've written to the Chancellor to express concerns about cuts to disability benefits
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This new briefing summarises the latest evidence on the effectiveness of the Women’s Centre Model in community-based alternatives to prisons.
We have responded to Work and Pension Committee inquiry on reforming Job Centres
We have responded to a consultation on Adult Social Care Reform: the Cost of Inaction
This briefing examines a human rights approach to social security for women in the UK and is in collaboration with Amnesty International UK.
We have written to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster about the independent review of the data collected and published by the ONS
WBG’s Submission to APPG on Poverty and Inequality Inquiry into the Disproportionate Impact of Poverty and Inequality on Disabled People
WBG’s alternative feminist response to a changing world
Together with other women's organisations, we've written to the Chancellor to express concerns about cuts to disability benefits
We support an open letter expressing concerns about Carer’s Allowance overpayment debts
Proposed changes to civil legal aid must be assessed through a gender equality lens
ONS, (2023) Time use in the UK: 23 September to 1 October 2023
Women’s Budget Group and New Economics Foundation (2022) Universal Quality Social Care: Transforming adult social care in England
ONS (2023) Unpaid care by age, sex and deprivation, England and Wales: Census 2021
Oxfam (2025) Billionaire wealth surges three times faster in 2024 – world now on track for at least five trillionaires within a decade
Oxfam (2025) Three quarters of British public would back government tax increases on very richest versus spending cuts
According to DWP statistics, there were 134,800 Carer’s Allowance overpayments in May 2024 (https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-05-13/25730/) and143,922 in February 2025 (https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-02-11/30627/)
National Audit Office report, December 2024. https://www.nao.org.uk/wp- content/uploads/2024/12/carers-allowance-1.pdf
WBG (2023) ‘Gender Gaps in Access to Civil Legal Justice: A survey of support services in England and Wales’ Dr Zubaida Haque, July 2023
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO)