
Financially Included
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Supporting women survivors of economic abuse & providing training to the advice sector. GEMAP & Glasgow VAWG Partnership. Funded by Delivering Equally Safe.
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Great to see Social Justice and Social Security Committee launch an inquiry, our project supports women every day who have been victims of economic abuse and other forms of gender-based violence that makes being financially secure an uphill battle. #economicabuse



Session 2 with the The Co-operative College on leading and embedding change. #SCVOgathering


Day 2 of the @SCVOgathering, started with the Victim Support Scotland session on improving outcomes for victims of crime. Economic abuse is a crime in Scotland as part of the Domestic abuse act 2018 #economicabuse #SCVOgathering




Hearing now from Nicola Killean, children and young people’s commissioner Scotland. From a child “we won’t turn the heating on, no matter how cold it gets, it’s just too expensive” The harsh reality for so many children in Scotland. Aberlour Children's Charity Centre for Public Policy #childpoverty

Workshop 1 The gendered nature of public debt with Scottish Women's Aid and Aberlour Children's Charity. At financially included we support many women with public sector debt accrued through economic abuse, more need to be done to make recovery faster. #economicabuse

Hearing now from Shirley-Anne Somerville Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice having “great concern” ahead of tomorrow’s U.K. government announcement on benefit cuts. #childpovery Aberlour Children's Charity Centre for Public Policy

Live podcast with a group cross party politicians now at the @aberlour and Centre for Public Policy child poverty conference. Shirley-Anne Somerville Paul O’Kane MSP 🇺🇦 Miles Briggs MSP Cllr Blair Anderson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP🔶🇺🇦 #childpoverty #publicsectordebt


Huge thanks to the team Financially Included for hosting our Committee today. We heard about the economic challenges faced by women when leaving an abusive relationship, the support the team provides and some of the wider issues we plan to explore in our inquiry.




Attending the online lunch session with Scottish Women's Aid and Dr Mhairi Jean Ross “Women of Easterhouse: A celebration of working class struggle and solidarity”