May. 17 2024
Source Page: New police training in sexual offences as more offenders convictedFound: the process as their perpetrators are brought to justice.
Found: (d) where the person is a child who is a victim of domestic abuse under the Domestic Act 2021
May. 15 2024
Source Page: Limitation law in child sexual abuse casesFound: Limitation law in child sexual abuse cases
Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (Con - North Thanet) , a history of conduct which constitutes domestic abuse as defined in sections 1 and 2 of the Domestic - Speech Link
2: None victims of domestic abuse and other forms of violence against women and girls and exploitation. - Speech Link
3: None It would give survivors of domestic abuse similar protection to that given to victims of trafficking - Speech Link
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) evaluate and (b) review the violence against women and girls strategy.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
The ambitious cross-Government Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy set out a series of measures to help ensure that women and girls are safe everywhere - at home, online, at work and in public. This was followed by a complementary Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan, published in March 2022. So far, we have completed 69% of the commitments across both strategy documents.
Delivery is overseen by a cross-Government VAWG Ministerial Steering Group (VAWG MSG). The last VAWG MSG took place on 1st May and was chaired by the Home Secretary. Part of the meeting focused on accelerating delivery of the remaining strategy commitments.
Many of our interventions are funded through grants awarded to third parties. These grants are actively monitored with recipients providing regular monitoring and end of financial year reports.
We are assessing the overall impact of measures set out in the strategies against the ambition to increase support to victims and survivors and bring more perpetrators to justice.
Our long-term ambition is to reduce the prevalence of violence against women. This is monitored via the published crime statistics, which include police recorded crime and Crime Survey for England and Wales data, as well as via other published criminal justice agency data. The latest data can be found here: Crime in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk).
Estimates from the 2022/23 CSEW showed that 5.1% of adults aged 16 to 59 years experienced domestic abuse in the previous year (Domestic abuse prevalence and victim characteristics - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)). This was a statistically significant decrease compared with the year ending March 2020 (6.1%), a year largely unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the same period, the prevalence of sexual assault and stalking has remained stable with no statistically significant changes.
Correspondence May. 14 2024
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: Victims and Safeguarding Sir Robert Neill KC (Hon) MP, Chair Justice Select Committee House of
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: Changes to legislation which were allegedly bought about to negate abuse of the NRM process and in
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: migrant domestic workers, in particular reinstate the pre-2012 Overseas Domestic Worker visa which
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: These complement Child Abuse teams, and other investigative teams across the force dedicated to
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: likely to go missing and be drawn into abuse and exploitation”.3 Our experience in practice is that