The Online Safety Bill presents an opportunity to address violence against women and girls in its digital dimensions and hold accountable the tech platforms that profit from this abuse. But if the new law passes in its current format, it…
Last week saw two controversial Bills receive Royal Assent: the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Policing Bill) and the Nationality and Borders Bill (also known as the Anti-Refugee Bill) became Acts of Parliament when they passed into law on…
Update, 9th June 2022: Read the response from Rachel Maclean MP, Minister for Safeguarding Today, 29th April 2022, a group of rape crisis centres, support services and campaigners have written an open letter to the Home Secretary calling for findings…
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today (28th April 2022) released its latest crime figures for the year ending in December 2021 – showing a new record high for sexual offences recorded by the police. 183,587 sexual offences were recorded…
The Home Affairs Committee has today (12th April 2022) published its report on the investigation and prosecution of rape, which has been in sharp decline since 2016. While reported rapes reached an all-time high in the year to September 2021,…
The Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan represents a welcome change of course from government, which had previously proposed to separate the Domestic Abuse Strategy from the Tackling VAWG Strategy, without any consultation of stakeholders or impact assessment. We are pleased that…
Yesterday (23rd March 2022), the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his Spring Statement for 2022, as the UK faces a ‘cost of living crisis’ and the prospect of the biggest fall in living standards in a single year since records…