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Women’s Centres Essential for Mental Health Support

10/7/2025

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  • Women’s centres are crucial for disadvantaged women facing barriers to accessing mental health services.
  • Professor Linda Gask urges community-based mental health provisions for women.
  • The Tavistock report highlights significant challenges women face accessing mainstream services.
  • Criminal-justice priorities may undermine mental health support, leaving women’s needs unmet.
  • Women’s centres offer trauma-informed, holistic services and advocacy on domestic abuse and welfare rights.