So Serious Assault?
| Author | Helen Rees |
| Published date | 01 March 1994 |
| Date | 01 March 1994 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/026455059404100130 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
sexually and/or phsycally abused. To
women need a stable base in the
refer such women (or any woman?) to an
community before they can consider
environment which is dominated by men
change. Refer women to Adelaide House.
and could be unsafe and insecure is not
If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it.
only ’inadvisable’, it is downright harmful.
The Inspectorate’s
Jean Atkinson
report
recommends the
Probation
women only hostel in
Officer/Manager,
Birmingham, ’Crowley House’, but fails
Adelaide House, Liverpool
to note that there are two other approved
hostels for women in England and Wales,
Beyond Emotive Rubbish
Kelley House Bail hostel m London and
Congratulations to Steve Collett of
Adelaide House Probation and Bail
Merseyside Probation Service on his
hostel in Merseyside. Adelaide House
excellent article ’Beyond Reason and
caters for women bailees, women with
Understanding’ (PJ December 1993).
probation order requirement, women on
After all the emotive rubbish that has
license and has a cluster house for a
been written by the media over recent
woman and her children. Adelaide House
months
is sensitive
surrounding the analysis of the
to women’s needs, sensitive
James Bulger murder, it was stimulating
to the particular needs of black women
and
and
refreshing to read such a balanced
displays posters throughout the hostel
article that attempted to offer some
illustrating its equal opportunities policy
and
professional and humane insight on a
practice. Mixed hostels cannot
provide the asylum that
very complex subject. Keep up the good
many women
work, Steve!
need before they can start the process of
change. The Thematic inspection
John McIlveen
recommends that women-only hostels
Probation Officer, Merseyside
should be ’promoted on a national basis,
with a view to maximising their usage’.
So Serious Assault?
The Home Office is closing seven
hostels by April 1994 and threatens three
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