Becky Rogerson

Becky Rogerson, JP, MBE, is the Director of Wearside Women in Need (WWiN), a specialist domestic abuse service providing a range of accommodation and community based services across Wearside. 

WWiN is a National Pilot site (one of three) testing the new Women’s Aid ‘Change that Lasts’ model and has forged strong partnerships with Health across the area, delivering into Hospitals and GP settings. The Charity works closely with Social Care and the Police prioritising safeguarding for adults and children and retains a strong community presence and public confidence through locality based services and community engagement.

A background in Prison and Probation services delivering offending behaviour interventions in substance misuse populations preceded twenty years in the field of domestic abuse victim and perpetrator services across South Tees at ‘My Sisters Place’ (2004 – 2018) and the ‘Safe’ and ‘Route 2’ (perpetrator) projects. Also served as a Magistrate in the Adult Criminal Court from 2008 – 2018 on the Cleveland Court Bench. 

A 2011 Winston Churchill Fellow, specialising in ‘Criminal Justice and Community Responses to Domestic Abuse in the Americas’, learning that has informed innovative approaches in UK settings. A presenter at the UK/China Human Rights Dialogue in Beijing (2017) on the role of Civil Society in Domestic Violence Law Reforms, and currently a Commissioner on the Barking and Dagenham national panel, tasked with designing a ‘Blueprint’ for domestic abuse approaches in England, a commission led by Jess Phillips MP and chaired by Polly Neate (CEO, Shelter) to be published later this year..

Becky has served as a Board member at Women’s Aid England since 2013 and was awarded an MBE in the 2020 Honours list for services to domestic abuse.