‘Epidemic’ of violence against spiral women out of control

A government strategy to stop violence against women established following the murders of Sarah Everard And Sabine Nessa has failed, a guard dog has ruled.

Despite spending millions, victims of violence against women and girls (Vawg) have not improved the results with an “epidemic” of spiral violence out of control.

Vawg is a “significant and growing problem” that affects one in 12 women, the National Audit Office (NaO) said that the addition of Home office “It is currently not leading an intergovernmental effective response.”

The report will press the Government of Sir Keir Starmer with the key promise to reduce by half Vawg in the next decade.

But the NAO said that to fulfill this objective, the Ministry of Interior “will need to lead a coordinated response from the entire system that addresses the causes of Vawg.”

While the Ministry of Interior under the conservatives created a dedicated team to lead its Vawg 2021 strategy, the Nao said met up to a year after launch.

It came like Spiral vawg in A “national emergency” with more than one million violent crimes against women and girls registered by the Police in 2022/23 that represents just under 20 percent of all crimes registered by the Police. England and Welsh.

A ministerial supervision group for the strategy “only met four times in three years”, with the president of the Public Accounts Committee, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown. A difference.

“If the Ministry of Interior takes half the violence against women and girls in the next decade, it cannot continue depending on fragmented efforts.

“The government must analyze the lessons of past strategies a lot and develop a better understanding of what works, both to avoid these horrible crimes and improve the results for traumatized victims.”

The prevalence of sexual aggression against women aged 16 to 59 in England and Wales was 4.3 percent in 2023-24, compared to 3.4 percent in 2009-10, NAO said.

In that same period, incidents of sexual violation and aggression against women and girls registered by the police increased from 34,000 to 123,000, although the NAO said this could be partly explained by a better record of such crimes.

Nao’s report raised questions about funds, saying that, compared to the 2021 illegal drug strategy, there was no review of prepared joint expenses with respect to the VAWG strategy, and pointed out the Ministry of the Historic Interior underestimated in this area.

The Guardian dog declared: “Our analysis suggests that other government departments spent at least £ 979 million between 2021-22 and 2023-24.

“The Interior Ministry has historically underlined its own budget assigned to the Vawg strategy, in an average of 15% between 2021-22 and 2023-24”.

Gareth Davies, Chief of the NAO, said: “Government’s efforts to address violence against women and girls have not yet improved the results for victims of these crimes.

“The lack of an effective and intergovernmental approach and a limited understanding of what works to help reduce these crimes means that the Ministry of Interior cannot be sure that the government is doing the best that can keep women and girls safe .

“The new government has established an ambitious objective to reduce violence against women and girls in the next decade. A well -informed and implemented cross response is needed effectively, which addresses both the causes and the consequences of these crimes. “

The victims’ commissioner, Baroness Newlove, said that the government’s goal to reduce by half Vawg in the next decade is “welcome, commendable and necessary, but as this report makes clear, there is still a critical lack of understanding about what that really works. “

She added: “We know that we cannot simply monitor this crisis; An effective strategy will require coordinated action in all sectors, with a shared vision backed by strong leadership of the center. The departments must sing from the same anthem leaf and throw in the same direction. That is clear. “

She emphasized the importance of listening to victims and financing support services.

A spokesman from the Ministry of Interior said that the report had analyzed the “breach of the previous government to deliver a systemic change”, and promised that work was “delivering a change of passage in the government’s response.”

They said: “In the last six months, we have not lost time to take measures to better protect victims and chase perpetrators. This includes the launch of new orders for the protection of domestic abuse, begin the implementation of domestic abuse specialists in 999 control rooms, strengthen the police response to increase and harassment, and be a pioneer in a truly intergovernmental approach to address these problems.

“We will not stop until we have a system that protects the victims, support their journey to justice and make the perpetrators accounts.”

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The National Surveillance Declaration for Violence against Women and Girls discovered that at least one in 12 women will be a victim per year, equating two million women, with the exact number that is expected to be much higher due to The crimes that are not reported.