March 2025

• Our detailed response to the Bertin Review, in which we drew on the experiences shared by Women with direct experience of the industry, and we continue to push for them to be consulted in any further reviews. We welcome the Review and its recommendations and are reassured to see the Government recognise the urgent need to tackle the harms of pornography. However, we are clear there is no such thing as ‘safe’ pornography and more needs to be done to protect and support women and girls who are harmed by pornography. Read our detailed response here.

June 2025

• We spoke to women across the UK with disabilities or caring responsibilities about the Government’s welfare reform proposals as outlined in the Department for Work and Pensions’ Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper. Read our statement here and the full response here. Submitted 30th June 2025.

• Our response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) Code of practice for services, public functions and associations: consultation 2025. The consultation aimed to gather feedback on changes the EHRC made following the UK Supreme Court ruling on 16 April 2025 in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers (For Women Scotland), which found that the definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 means biological sex. Read our full response here. Submitted 30th June 2025.

• Critical protections for women are too often unconsidered and failing in their purpose. We responded to the Office for Equality and Opportunity (OEO)’s Equality Law Call for Evidence to raise the alarm that the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) is failing women. The OEO is interested in whether non-public bodies exercising public functions are meeting their obligations under the PSED. However, this narrow focus misses a more fundamental opportunity. Read our statement here and our full response here. Submitted 30th June 2025.

FiLiA's campaigns and policy team, which includes the FiLiA Women’s Assembly, is working to support women to get their voices heard by local and national policy makers and decision makers. Here we will share consultations, calls for evidence and other opportunities which may be of particular interest to women, and where it will be important for policy makers to hear from women on their experiences and their perspectives:

• Research is being undertaken by the UK Parliament into the life outcomes of ‘looked after children’. There is an open call for evidence and contributions to support this research. Ends: 28th September 2025. Approved work: Improving outcomes and support for looked after children and their families – POST

• The Work and Pensions Committee of the UK Parliament is calling for evidence to help with their new inquiry into employment support for disabled people. This inquiry will explore the reasons behind the disability employment gap and recommend improvements.
  Ends: 29th September 2025. Employment support for disabled people – UK Parliament

• NHS England are seeking views on their professional strategy for nursing and midwifery. The findings of this consultation will help them modernise nursing and midwifery and make the professions careers of choice. Ends: 29th September 2025. Professional strategy for nursing and midwifery – defining the next era of nursing and midwifery – NHS England

• Inquiry: Reproductive health conditions: girls and young women. The Women and Equalities Committee is following up its previous work on women’s reproductive health, with a focus on better meeting the needs of girls and young women. It is assessing progress in diagnoses, treatments and pain management of conditions including endometriosis, adenomyosis and heavy menstrual bleeding.
  Ends: 30th September 2025. Reproductive health conditions: girls and young women – UK Parliament

• An inquiry has been launched by the Justice Committee to examine how advice and legal services are adapting following previous restrictions placed on Legal Aid. The committee will also look into the scope for future innovation in the nature of services, funding, regulation and technology. Ends: 30th September 2025. Access to Justice – UK Parliament

• The Prevention of Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill was introduced in the Scottish Parliament in May 2025. As with all Bills, the Finance and Public Administration Committee invites written evidence on the estimated financial implications of the Bill. Ends: 3rd October 2025.
  Prevention of Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill: Financial Memorandum – Scottish Parliament

• The UK Parliament are seeking research evidence and stakeholder views to assist them in drafting a ‘POSTnote’ to the Law Commission report published in 2023 which proposed reforms to surrogacy law. This ‘POSTnote’ will describe current surrogacy practice and discuss ethical, social and medical considerations, such as access to surrogacy, and the rights of surrogates, intended parents, and children. Ends: 5th October 2025. Approved work: Surrogacy – current practice and proposed reforms

• The Department of Work and Pensions has opened an inquiry into government proposals for changing the Child Maintenance Service. Evidence is sought to assist in understanding how to improve the Service’s effectiveness and the way it deals with families.
  Ends: 6th October 2025. Child Maintenance Service – UK Parliament

• Open call for evidence: Identification of victims of modern slavery. This call for evidence is an important step towards longer-term reforms of the modern slavery identification system (National Referral Mechanism/NRM). The UK Home Office is interested in hearing from a wide range of different groups about ways that the UK can have a more effective identification system for victims of modern slavery, where victims are recognised early and accurately so they can be protected and provided with appropriate assistance and support towards their recovery from exploitation. Ends: 8th October 2025. Open call for evidence: Identification of victims of modern slavery – UK Home Office

• The Welsh Government have launched a consultation on their strategy to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse and are now seeking views from the public. Ends: 8th October 2025. National strategy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse – GOV.WALES

• The Scottish Government is seeking views on student support available for further education (FE) and higher education (HE) part-time and distance study; and on the support available for full-time and part-time disabled students undertaking FE and HE study.
  Ends: 9th October 2025. Support for part-time study and disabled students: Survey for students, potential students, parents and carers – Scottish Government

• The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on adding the characteristic of sex to The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, the Scottish hate crime legal framework. The effect of the new measures is to add new protections for women and girls as well as men and boys. Ends: 10th October 2025. SSI to add ‘sex’ as a characteristic to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 – Scottish Government consultations

• The UK Education Committee is calling for evidence to inform its early years inquiry. This inquiry will examine a number of policy issues related to workforce sustainability in the sector, access and affordability of services for parents, and quality of provision and outcomes for young children. Ends: 10th October 2025. Early Years: Improving support for children and parents – Committees – UK Parliament

• The Welsh Government are consulting on their proposal for the future development of the Childcare Sufficiency Assessment (CSA) which is part of the Childcare Act 2006. Views are sought on how the CSA process and content may be improved. Ends: 17th October 2025.
  Review of the Childcare Sufficiency Assessment (CSA) Duty on Local Authorities – GOV.WALES

• The Children, Young People and Education Committee are monitoring the educational reforms introduced by the Welsh Parliament. The Committee is now seeking views to help them plan their scrutiny, this will include the implementation of the new Additional Learning Needs system. Ends: 18th October 2025. Implementation of education reforms – Welsh Parliament

• A consultation has been launched by the Welsh Government to gather views on how social services support looked after children, with a view to improving adoption, fostering and kinship services. Ends: 20th October 2025. Improving adoption, fostering and kinship services – GOV.WALES

• The Department of Work and Pensions is calling for evidence that will inform their regular review required by the Pensions Act. They specifically wish to hear about what factors government should consider in determining State Pension age. Ends: 24th October 2025.
  Third State Pension age review: independent report call for evidence – GOV.UK

• The Welsh Government are consulting on changes to the way in which local authorities carry out their corporate parental responsibilities. This will include strengthening the voice of the child. Ends: 27th October 2025. Corporate parenting: part 6 code of practice on looked after and accommodated children – GOV.WALES

• Brighton and Hove City Council are consulting on their Sexual Health Strategy for 2025-2030. This strategy will guide how they support the sexual health of women, girls, men and boys and reproductive health across the city. Please give them feedback to make sure it reflects local needs. Ends 28th October 2025. Project: Sexual Health Strategy – Brighton & Hove City Council

• Social Work England are consulting on new guidance to help social workers apply the professional standards when they communicate online. They want to hear from anyone who has views on this. Ends: 29th October 2025. Communicating online: guidance for social workers – Social Work England

• NHS England are seeking views on proposed changes to the service specification for specialist gender incongruence services for children and young people. This revised version follows publication of an interim service specification in June 2023, which was developed in response to the interim advice set out in the Cass Review. Ends: 2nd November 2025. NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service Specification

• The Welsh Government are proposing changes to the rules about child minding and day care registration and exploring a Voluntary Approval Scheme. Views are sought on these proposals. Ends: 3rd November 2025. Exceptions to childcare registration and the proposal for a Voluntary Approval Scheme – GOV.WALES

• Education Scotland are reviewing how school inspections work in Scotland and are calling for views. This feedback will shape how they make inspections fairer, more transparent, and more focused on what matters most for children and young people. Ends: 26th November 2025. School inspections are changing: the views of children and young people – Scottish Government consultations

• Views are invited on the latest proposed changes to the Welsh National Minimum Standards for Regulated Childcare for children up to the age of 12 years. Ends: 10th December 2025. Respond online – GOV.WALES

• The Public Accounts Committee are calling for evidence to help with their inquiry into home to school transport. This follows on from their report published earlier this year that found that the lack of state school capacity for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) is causing longer travel distances to suitable schools. Closing date to be confirmed. Home-to-school transport – UK Parliament