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Young Women’s Trust responds to Reform plans to scrap the Equality Act.

Read our response to Kemi Badenoch’s announcement on scrapping the Public Sector Equality Duty. 

Following the publication of the interim Milburn report, Young Women’s Trust is calling for urgent action to address the rising number of NEET (not in education, employment or training) young women which is currently at its highest level since 2014. 

Young Women’s Trust, the charity campaigning for an equal world of work, has responded to the Government's priorities set out in the King's Speech.

Young Women’s Trust, the charity campaigning for an equal world of work, has announced the appointment of Katharine Sacks-Jones as its new Chief Executive. 

The charity Young Women’s Trust celebrates the announcement that the Employment Rights Bill has received Royal Assent and will now become law. The legislation that will come as part of this bill will grant new, and much needed, rights to workers across the country. 

Unresolved workplace wrongdoings are leaving a third of young women with no option but to quit the workforce entirely, according to new research by Young Women’s Trust. 

The charity Young Women’s Trust welcomes Matthew Taylor CBE as the chair of the new Fair Work Agency, a body established as part of the Employment Rights Bill to enforce workers’ rights and simplify and strengthen the current system.

After nearly four years as Chief Executive at Young Women’s Trust, Claire Reindorp has announced that she will be leaving the charity in spring 2026.

As the government’s Employment Rights Bill receives its third reading in the House of Lords, the charity Young Women’s Trust are urging peers to do the right thing and pass it in full to ensure the commitment to transforming the lives of thousands of workers does not fall short of its promise.

Young Women’s Trust, alongside unions, think tanks and other charities call on MPs to reject amendments made to government legalisation that could leave many workers in danger of continued exploitation and financial insecurity.

Young Women’s Trust warns of serious consequence after plans to ban exploitative zero hour contracts are watered down.