This week we’re supporting ‘UK Says No More week - a national campaign aimed at ending domestic abuse and sexual violence across the UK.

At Ramsdens we are incredibly proud of our gender equality across the firm and especially today we wanted to hear from our wonderful colleagues and talk to them about what advice they’d give their younger selves, with a view to inspiring future generations of female leaders.

​The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced the Budget for 2021 and has confirmed that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (also known as furlough scheme) will be extended further beyond the end of April to the end of September.​

On 1 March 2021 Dame Rachel de Souza took up her appointments as the new Children’s Commissioner for England and she replaces Anne Longfield OBE who held the post since 2015.

The chancellor has announced a £15million package for support for domestic abuse programmes. This follows a previous increase in funding for domestic abuse services during the first national lockdown last year amid the huge rise in domestic abuse and has almost doubled the funding towards domestic abuse in the 2020 budget.

In the March Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak made two housing announcements.

The impact of the pandemic since March 2020 and the restrictions and lockdowns that have resulted from it have intensified the risk factors that put children at risk of abuse.

Before now the only way to receive a heart transplant, for children, was for the circumstances of the donor to be such that the heart was still beating.