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Violence against women and girls

Our ambition is to end violence against women and girls. This section contains our strategic vision and work we’re planning over the coming spending review period.

Latest on this topic

  • Taking action - The next chapter
    Updating the previous call to end violence to women and girls action plan, this contains 100 actions to tackle violence against women.
    Published 8 March 2012.
  • Teenage rape prevention
    The new campaign aims to prevent teenagers from becoming victims and perpetrators of sexual violence and abuse.
    Published 5 March 2012
  • Young people's advocates
    Organisations bid for grants to fund young people's advocates posts, so that direct and dedicated support can be given to under 18s.
    Published 9 February 2012
  • Three steps to escaping violence against women and girls leaftlet
    Report the violence; take action to escape; keep safe. Our new leaflet offers advice for women, girls and children and is available in 12 languages.
    Published 6 February 2012

What we're doing

Updated action plan

On 8 March 2012, to mark International Women's Day, we launched an updated version of the violence against women and girls action plan. It builds on the strategic vision, action plan and progress review to deliver an updated set of actions to take.

Read Call to end violence against women and girls. Taking action - the next chapter.

Strategic vision

In the strategic vision to end violence against women and girls, the government committed to providing central funding on a stable basis over the spending review period, giving the police the tools they need, spreading effective practice, and giving communities the information they need to hold government to account.

Action plan

The Call to end violence to women and girls action plan contained measures for central government to:

  • prevent violence from happening by challenging the attitudes and behaviours which foster it and intervening early where possible to prevent it
  • provide adequate levels of support where violence does occur
  • work in partnership to obtain the best outcome for victims and their families 
  • take action to reduce the risk to women and girls who are victims of these crimes and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice

An action plan progress review was published in November 2011 to assess what we've achieved so far.

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