Agenda (charity)

[1] The charity aims to highlight the needs of what it considers to be the most excluded women and girls: those who have experienced extensive violence, abuse, Psychological trauma, and economic inequality, including problems such as homelessness, incarceration, addiction, serious mental health issues, engagement in prostitution, and other forms of disadvantage.

[2] Agenda was brought together by a group of trusts, foundations and voluntary sector organisations building on work started with Baroness Corston’s 2007 report into women in the criminal justice system.

It found that many women and girls end up with other poor life trajectories including severe mental health problems, substance misuse issues, homelessness and involvement in prostitution.

[6] In January 2016, Agenda published research claiming that one in 20 women in England have experienced extensive physical and sexual violence as both a child and an adult.

[7] The research also claims that women with the most extensive experiences of abuse also had very high rates of mental ill-health, disability, substance misuse, homelessness and poverty.