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Charities warn of the risk the impacts of the pandemic pose to young women’s mental health as new research lays bare the connection between poverty and self-harm in young women.

Today, more than 40 organisations have written to the Prime Minister to demand that the most disadvantaged women are not ignored by the Government during this pandemic.

Jemima Olchawski, Chief Executive of Agenda, responds to the government’s rough sleeping statistics for England.

We need to shift to a more gendered understanding of ‘risk’ and ‘harm’ as it affects young people and wider society.

New report published today by Centre for Mental Health and Agenda explores how trauma-informed approaches are being implemented by public services.

Jemima Olchawski and Donna Covey, Chief Executives at Agenda and AVA, discuss the need for the findings of our Breaking Down the Barriers report to be taken into account in policy and practice.

Jess Southgate, Policy Manager at Agenda, welcomes the government's 'The right to family life: children whose mothers are in prison' report and calls for urgent change is needed for mothers in the criminal justice system.

Responding to rising suicide rates among young women and girls, Jess Southgate, Policy Manager at Agenda, calls for investment in mental health support.

Exclusive data shows many NHS mental health trusts fail to make enquiries about domestic violence and abuse. We call for the Domestic Abuse Bill to change this.

Jemima Olchawski, Chief Executive of Agenda, responds to new study on female survivors of intimate partner violence and risk of serious mental illness.

Agenda welcomes the publication of new resource providing public services with a guide to the principles of trauma-informed care and how to put them into practice.

Policy Manager Jessica Southgate discusses All the Lights Are On, a theatre collaboration between Cardboard Citizens and Clean Break, and our plans to support as part of our #ThisisMyStory campaign.