Violence Against Women Debate
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Countess of Mar
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Violence Against Women
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Baroness Verma
My Lords, I commend the noble Baroness for all her work in raising these issues. Some 66,000 women subject to FGM are living in England and Wales. We need to ensure that practitioners in front-line services are better informed so as to recognise that this practice is prevalent, particularly among certain communities. We need to be able to address these issues much earlier on so that victims feel confident that they will be given support once they have been raised.
The Countess of Mar
My Lords, is anger management a component of the management of people who are abusers?
Baroness Verma
The noble Countess raises an important issue which perhaps I need to take away. We know that there are many abuses which lead to domestic violence, and I am sure that anger management will be involved.