In 2021 WEP East Kent focus is on EVAW

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We will be working with the steering committee and local groups on a month by month recognition of the varieties of harm that comes to women in East Kent. Keep an eye on this page or email eastkent@womensequality.org.uk

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WE ARE LAUNCHING WHITE RIBBON CAMPAIGN:

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WE are calling on the Kent local governments to to urgently release additional funding directly to specialist services and to agree on a long term funding settlement to guarantee everyone who flees abuse can access the support they need.

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Across Kent, women and children are being turned away from refugees and specialist services with 3 in 10 being ethnic minorities. There are not enough beds,  not enough accessible spaces for disabled women and not enough specialist support for LGBT+ or minoritised women. However, just 5% of the emergency funding for abuse services this year has gone to specialist services, and the Government has made no moves to give domestic abuse services the sustainable, long term funding they need. We can and must do better.

WE raised our voices by producing the #LeftOffTheList petition, and WE truly made a difference! 

 

On 24th February, the Government announced that some people with learning disabilities would be added to the vaccine priority list. This is progress, but it’s nowhere near enough. There are still tens of thousands of people with disabilities across the country who face a far higher risk of severe illness or death than the general population who will not receive priority access to the vaccine. 

 

Disabled and chronically ill people have borne the brunt of the COVID-19 virus. 60% of COVID deaths have been of disabled people, and many in the disabled community have had to spend most of the last year shielding. However, at every turn, they - the worst affected - have been forgotten or omitted from the Government response. 

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Key campaign:

WE are advocating for everyone at risk receives priority access to the Covid vaccine and raise in wages of care workers.

 

Join the WEP Disability Caucus - a group of disabled members & allies to campaign for disability rights and representation.

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In 2021 I joined the WEP Climate Change Group to create and run actions to raise awareness of our commitments for change. I support the work Thanet Green party and local groups including GrassCT9, Green new deal UK, XR_Thanet working on improving my coastal town of Margate.

 

Keep an eye on this page or email eastkent@womensequality.org.uk

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Bring the stroke unit back to Margate’s QEQM hospital!

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Ensure all 7 District General Hospitals in Kent and Medway, including Margate, Canterbury and Ashford, can be reached for acute care for stroke within 30 minutes, as they can in London.

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Invest in better pay, conditions and most importantly recruitment incentives for NHS staff, improve the ambulance service, and ensure more doctors, more nurses, more therapists.

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Invest in better care for patients in East Kent, less on managers’ salaries, management consultants and reorganisations.

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Read the SONIK Stroke Report which exposes the flaws and dangers in the current Kent & Medway stroke plans here

In 2021 this campaign I hope to work with the WEP Health care committee to spread awareness of sexual health care education. To reform the language around sex, pregnancy, miscarriage, infant death and sexual anatomy health.

 

Keep an eye on this page or email eastkent@womensequality.org.uk

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Key Campaign

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Working as Race Equality Caucuse committee member to work with local organisations to rase profile for duwals and specialised maternity care.

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Clincal education to meet the needs of global majority members of the community.

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Investment into resources to reduce the strain on ashford and QEQM hospital as the onlyunits with maternity wards.

This campaign will start in November 2020 and continue for as long as it is needed. I am making a commitment to enact all my press and campaigns with a focus on intersectionality. I want to see education become an intersectional publication of history and facts of all the communities in the UK. I think it is far gone time when you could justify a curriculum that did not include all intersectionalities; age, class, disability, gender, race, religion and sexuality. 

 

Keep an eye on this page or email eastkent@womensequality.org.uk

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Key Campaign

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Starting with White Ribbon campaign to work with people of Kent to spread the word we are ready to action reducing violent attacks; starting with action to spread awareness of the severatity of the need for action.

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Sharing an action to our council to push for commitment to make invested change

 

To budget education in school and reform attitudes towards sex based hate crimes to establish greater understanding of citizenship.