Transcript Presentation to The City of London for the Provision of

Anna Page
Policy, Public Affairs and Research Manager
Why focus on women?
Getting the right help to women at the right time
Gather
evidence
Identify
solutions
Lobbying &
service
development
Getting the right help to women at the right time
Housing &
homelessness
Involvement in
prostitution
Employment
& skills
Domestic
abuse &
sexual
violence
Women &
homelessness
Childhood
trauma
Children &
families
Drugs &
alcohol
Health &
wellbeing
Criminal
justice
Domestic
abuse &
sexual
violence
•70% women rough sleepers in UK have
experienced domestic violence
• 53% female clients have experienced domestic
abuse
• Domestic violence led to 31% of St Mungo’s
female clients becoming homeless
• 17% local authorities class single adult without
children and fleeing DV as in priority need
Of St Mungo’s female clients
Drugs &
alcohol
•29% use alcohol problematically
• 63% more than 5 years
• 36% more than 10 years
• 43% use drugs
• 66% more than 5 years
• 37% more than 10 years
• Different patterns of drug use
Female specific specialist provision
• Arguments made for both female-only and mixed
provision by both service users and professionals
• Service gap identified by submissions across
themes
• Particular shortage of women’s services and
accommodation for people with complex needs
Women-only specific provision for
complex needs
New analysis of outcomes star :
• Women in complex needs projects make more
positive change in female-only than in mixed
provision
Mental wellbeing: 52% women only, 30% mixed
Motivation: 41% women only, 28% mixed
Femininity: barriers for recovery and
prevention
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Masculine
Active
Hard
Strong
Individual
General
Worker
Male
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Feminine
Passive
Soft
Weak
Collective
Particular
Homemaker
Female
Femininity: barriers for recovery and
prevention
Roles as mother and homemaker central constituents of
femininity
Stigma arising from not fulfilling these roles
‘Simply I am trying to settle my exterior and interior in the way to give
impression of a person, who has never been taking any drugs. I have
to confirm and prove myself doubly to be recognised as good, fine
young lady’
Drug-using mother, Slovenia
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