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‘Safety, security and service’: behind the scenes with police at Arsenal v Chelsea

Facial recognition and spotters part of operation at Emirates that involved dozen incidents and two arrests

The Guardian - UK

Simpson review highlights ‘same characteristics’ as Sarah Everard murder probe

Katie Simpson, 21, died six days after being admitted to hospital in Londonderry in 2020.

Evening Standard

Two-thirds of domestic abuse survivors rejected from refuges due to national shortages, report reveals

Exclusive: Charities and MPs call for urgent funding for the sector as last year saw highest proportion of referrals rejected in five years

The Independent UK

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Starmer urges Travelodge boss to engage with MPs after meeting cancelled

Keir Starmer expressed his ‘very concerned’ that some MPs had not heard directly from Jo Boydell

The Independent UK

Lammy’s jury reforms will ‘deepen mistrust of justice system among women and girls’

Groups representing victims of VAWG called for the justice secretary to drop plans to limit jury trials, insisting they are a ‘democratic safeguard’

The Independent UK

Cutting jury trials risks ‘undermining justice’ for abused women and girls, Lammy warned

In letter to justice secretary, groups say judge-led decisions more likely to be influenced by bias than those made by 12 random people

The Guardian - UK

As a boomer, I’m shocked by gen Z’s attitude towards women – something has gone very wrong

New research suggests older people have more progressive views on women’s rights than younger generations. This direction of travel is deeply concerning, says Joan Smith, former co-chair of the Mayor of London’s VAWG Board

The Guardian - UK

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Banaz Mahmod died in an ‘honour’ killing 20 years ago. Her death changed police investigations forever

‘I wish time stood still because the more years that go by, the further away she feels from me,’ said sister Payzee Mahmod

The Independent UK

England planning proposals fail to mention safety of women and girls, say critics

Draft proposals likely to ‘embed risk and inequality’, campaigners and urban planners say

The Guardian - UK

‘Hidden crisis’ of 40,000 women and girls going missing every year due to violence

Women open up about abuse that led to disappearance, after government VAWG strategy is silent on missing people, as The Independent hopes to launch national lifeline SafeCall

The Independent UK

Labour: We’ll treat violence against women like terror and gang crime

Jess Phillips promises ‘change is coming’ as long-awaited violence against women and girls strategy is published

The Independent UK

Badenoch says teaching boys about misogyny shouldn’t be a priority because migrants more dangerous to women and girls – as it happened

Tory leader dismisses the government’s newly published strategy as a ‘complete distraction’

The Guardian - UK

Schools to tackle influence of Andrew Tate with compulsory lessons on consent

The flagship £36m strategy will finally be unveiled 18 months after Labour was elected with a manifesto promise to halve violence against women and girls within a decade

The Independent UK

Boys to learn difference between porn and real life to tackle misogyny in England’s schools

Teachers to be given extra training as Keir Starmer warns ‘toxic ideas are taking hold early and going unchallenged’

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Police forces in England and Wales to get units that tackle violence against women

Specialist teams will deal with offences such as rape and stalking as part of VAWG strategy, home secretary says

The Independent UK

Every police force to have specialist rape investigation unit – but not until 2029

Campaigners say it is ‘not acceptable’ that victims will be left with an inconsistent response until 2029

Evening Standard

Specialist teams for all police forces under violence against women’s strategy

The Home Secretary announced the changes ahead of the Vawg strategy launch expected next week.

The Guardian - UK

Government’s process behind tackling violence against women ‘worse than under the Tories’

Exclusive: As Labour ministers prepare long awaited strategy, campaigners accuse them of sidelining experts

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The Sarah Everard report part two: a catalogue of repeated and preventable failures

So many reviews, so much hand-wringing, yet misogyny in England and Wales’s police forces and impunity for offenders remains the norm, says Joan Smith, former co-chair of the Mayor of London’s VAWG Board

The Independent UK

‘Lives are at stake’: Predators like Wayne Couzens ‘still being given police jobs’ after murder of Sarah Everard

Elish Angiolini has called for leaders to ‘get a move on’ to protect women in public spaces, as Sarah Everard’s mother Susan, says she is still tormented by the horrors of her daughter’s final hours

The Independent UK

Government drafts in new violence against women and girls adviser amid fears it will miss its target

Exclusive: Labour MP Jess Asato has been drafted in to lead a major overhaul of the NHS’s response to violence against women and girls – just days after Refuge branded the chancellor’s Budget a ‘profound disappointment’ to survivors

The Guardian - UK

CPS to train staff on ‘spectrum of abuse’ in violence against women and girls

Five-year strategy aims to improve casework after analysis finds domestic abuse in more than third of rape cases

The Independent UK

A third of all rape charges linked to domestic abuse, new data shows

Shock data unveils grim link between various offences against women and girls

The Independent UK

Domestic abuse victims forced to wait in same rooms as alleged perpetrators at courts, barrister warns

Only 15 per cent of families are eligible for legal aid, meaning victims are often forced to represent themselves

The Independent UK

‘My partner stole my benefits and cancelled my hospital appointments – it took me years to finally escape’

Charity Refuge warns technology-led abuse having ‘devastating’ impact on disabled survivors

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