Team Lopez – Julia Lopez MP has welcomed the below letter from the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman MP, outlining the efforts underway to tackle the despicable crimes and violence against women and girls (VAWG).
The government has made tackling VAWG a key priority and is delivering on the commitment to invest over £230 million over three years as announced in Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan. The Plan complements the Tackling VAWG Strategy published in 2021, and which committed to continuing to make record investment so that victims and survivors were
supported with more than £300 million being invested in that year.
The government has given domestic abuse victims more time to report assaults – ensuring abusers cannot evade justice through increasing the time limits to report incidents of common assault or battery. Ministers introduced tougher sentences for offenders, rolled out initiatives to create safer streets, and are transforming the justice system’s approach to rape and domestic abuse. But the fact remains that these crimes are still far too prevalent.
Given this, the Home Secretary has announced in her letter another package of measures that will work to hold perpetrators to account and better support victims.
These measures include:
- Adding the most dangerous domestic abuse offenders to the Violent and Sex Offender Register
- Adding violence against women and girls to the Strategic Policing requirement
- Piloting the expansion of the ‘Ask for ANI’ codeword scheme
- Piloting new Domestic Abuse Protection Notices and Orders
- Creating a new digital domestic abuse harm risk assessment tool
- Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme
- Funding interventions for domestic abuse perpetrators
- Funding support services for victims
Together, these measures will help the government build a better society that has zero tolerance to violence against women and girls and protect the safety and freedom of all women and girls nationwide.
For more in-depth information, please view the Home Secretary’s letter using the link below.
