Together We Can End Violence Against Women and Girls: a Strategy
This cross-government strategy sets out a coordinated approach to ending violence against women and girls. It includes a range of actions for the police, councils, the NHS and government departments across three areas: prevention, provision and protection. It was informed by your views, gathered in a public consultation, which ran over three months between March and May 2009.
The prevention work addresses social attitudes and myths about violence, changing attitudes over the long-term and stopping violence happening in the first place. Part of this work will include an awareness raising campaign for teenagers aged 13 - 18.
The provision work focuses on ensuring women and girls have access to the right help and support for example counselling and access to specialist services, when violence does occur.
The protection work looks at how we can provide end-to-end support for all victims through the criminal and civil justice systems, from reporting the crime to going to court. It will also focus on bringing more offenders to justice by improving reporting and conviction rates, as well as working to rehabilitate offenders and manage the risk they may present to women and girls.
We have also developed a tool to aid those who work in this field. The violence against women and girls ready reckoner (new window) is available on the Crime Reduction website.
Also available below is:
Date: Wed Nov 25 08:00:00 GMT 2009
- Together We Can End Violence Against Women and Girls: a Strategy (PDF file - 1mb - Warning: large file)
- Together We Can End Violence Against Women and Girls: Annexes to the Strategy (PDF file - 630kb)
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