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'I've tried to talk to my children about strangulation - it's not normal'
There have been three strategies by three successive governments to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG) since 2010, and one refresh.
What has been the result of these endeavours? Police chiefs in 2024 described the scale of violence against women and girls as "a national emergency" as over one million incidents were reported in 2022/3, accounting for 20% of all police recorded crime. At least one in every 12 women will be a victim, but the number is probably higher than that, as this sort of violence is typically underreported.
You will likely know a woman who is the victim of abuse. When you look at the situation, and think of all the mums, sisters, daughters, aunts and friends, it makes you want to put your head in your hands: strategy after strategy, plan after plan, women and girls and the victims of abuse are being let down.
Today, the government will launch a new strategy, drawn up by Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, that will attempt to finally put this right. The promise is to halve violence against women and girls in a decade after what has been, as Phillips puts it, "a catalogue of failures".
That catalogue of failures is long. Successive governments had "failed to deliver a genuinely whole-of-government approach.
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