Violence against women
Violence against women perpetuates inequality
and this government does not accept that it should ever be viewed
as a ‘fact of life’. That is why we have identified it as one of
the three key priorities for the Ministers for Women.
Also, the introduction of the
Gender Equality Duty , the publication of the first gender
equality scheme and the first cross-government equality Public
Service Agreement (PSA) – which links to the ‘Making Communities
Safer’ PSA are encouraging many public authorities to look at
how gender, and specifically violence against women, impacts on
their work.
The Government is keen to ensure that the
changes in laws and procedures translate into solid improvements on
the ground. Today there are 104 Specialist Domestic Violence
Court systems; the network of Sexual Assault Referral Centres is
expanding; there are specialist rape prosecutors in every Crown
Prosecution Service (CPS) area; and the UK Human Trafficking Centre
has opened, the first of its kind in Europe.
Much has changed in the last ten years, and
particularly in the last two. But there is always room for
improvement. In order to ask people what more should be done
to tackle these crimes, the Home Secretary will be launching a
consultation on violence against women and women’s safety in the
New Year.
Policy areas;
Tackling Violence against Women and Girls: a guide to good
practice communication
The Government Equalities Office has developed a communications
guidance and toolkit: Tackling
Violence against Women and Girls: a guide to good practice
communication, in order to support and inform government
communication in the area of violence against women and girls.
Reducing violence against women and girls requires a long-term
shift in public attitudes, and GEO recognises that effective and
strategic communications will play a key role in achieving
this.
This is the first guidance of its kind on this topic and it is
designed to support communication and campaign activity around the
cross-Government VAWG strategy – Together
We Can End Violence against Women and Girls.
Government communicators working in the area of violence against
women and girls are the primary audience for this guidance, but we
hope that others will also use it.
A note about navigation
- The guidance is an interactive PDF. The navigation works as
follows:
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page
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looked at
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The home page is a quick way to navigate the guidance so that
you can go directly to the practical advice, information and tools.
There are blue boxes on the left of the page which identify areas
and issues where you might want some advice; the boxes on the right
will take you to the topic and section that you need.