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
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Protecting victims of domestic violence
Pilot scheme that protects domestic violence victims to continue in three police force areas.
Published 2 July 2012 -
Forced marriage to be made a criminal offence
Further support and protection for victims
Published 8 June 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.
Publications
Internet links
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- Department of Health: violence against women and children
- Forced marriage unit
- Female genital mutilation
- Government equalities office
- National domestic violence helpline
- Respect
- National stalking helpline
- The poppy project
- NSPCC Helpline
- ChildLine
- Stopblame.org
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