AI ‘nudification’ to be banned under new plans to tackle violence against women Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips declared ‘change is coming’ The Independent UK · Dec 18, 2025
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 · Dec 18, 2025
'Detect Early Signs of Misogyny': UK Teachers to Be Trained to Spot Signs of Misogyny in Boys In hopes of detecting early signs of misogyny, UK teachers will be given training to spot it inside the classroom as part of the government's eagerly anticipated plan to reduce violence against women and girls by fifty percent over the next ten years. International Business Times UK · Dec 18, 2025
Teachers in England face growing misogyny and need help dealing with sexual aggression, says Phillips Comments from safeguarding minister come as violence against women and girls strategy due to launch The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2025
Government focused on prevention to tackle violence against women – minister The plans include all pupils in secondary schools being taught about healthy relationships, with teachers trained to spot worrying behaviour in boys. Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2025
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 · Dec 18, 2025
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 · Dec 17, 2025
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 The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2025
Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield to chair grooming gangs inquiry Peer named as chair of national inquiry, which is expected to cover England and Wales, after long-delayed search The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2025
OPINION - The grooming gang scandal needed a judge-led inquiry Anne Longfield is a decent woman, but that’s not enough for this challenge Evening Standard · Dec 8, 2025
Teachers should ‘whinge more’ like Birmingham bin workers, Jess Phillips says The MP said schools have not been thanked enough for how much they have been asked to take on The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2025
Jess Phillips: ‘Schools get asked to do too much’ Speaking at the Girls’ School Association Conference, the minister for violence against women and girls said teachers should ‘whinge more’. Evening Standard · Nov 18, 2025
‘Unjust’ grooming ‘child prostitution’ convictions to be pardoned Home Office acknowledges victims were ‘criminalised for actions that occurred under duress, fear and coercion’ The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2025
Why the UK’s grooming gangs inquiry is in turmoil – and what needs to happen now The UK’s grooming gangs inquiry appears to be in turmoil before it has even started, following the resignation of several women from its victim liaison panel. Their complaints related mainly to appointments to chair the inquiry and the potential for its focus to be widened. The Conversation · Nov 5, 2025
The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2025 Nigel Farage facing calls to apologise to female survivors of grooming gangs A group of women have said it was “categorically untrue” for Farage to have said they were not victims of grooming gangs
Evening Standard · Oct 29, 2025 Nigel Farage urged to apologise to five survivors of grooming gangs for 'ignorance and untrue statements' Reform UK leader suggested the women invited on to the child sexual exploitation inquiry panel were victims of other types of child sexual abuse
The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2025 Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’
The Independent UK · Oct 25, 2025 Starmer stands by Jess Phillips as grooming gang survivor threatens to sue minister Jess Phillips is coming under increasing pressure to resign as safeguarding minister with the grooming gang inquiry in crisis
Evening Standard · Oct 24, 2025 Grooming gang survivor threatens to sue minister in row over inquiry’s focus Solicitors for Fiona Goddard wrote to minister Jess Phillips on Friday demanding an apology.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2025 Grooming gang survivors risk becoming pawns in a political game that is no place for vulnerable people The chaos surrounding the inquiry stands as a warning: this is what happens when collapsing trust in public institutions, combined with point scoring, leads to paralysis, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2025 Friday briefing: How Plaid beat Reform (and left Labour in Senedd byelection dust) In today’s newsletter: Labour has been the largest party in Wales at every general election since 1922. Last night, that history came to an abrupt and painful end – but it was also a disappointing evening for Nigel Farage
The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2025 Grooming gang inquiry ‘may not take place till next year’ amid infighting over Jess Phillips’ role Four women who resigned from the victims liaison panel have called on Jess Phillips to resign - while five survivors on the panel have backed the safeguarding minister
The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2025 Grooming gangs inquiry divided over the question of widening its focus Splits grow over its remit as survivors angered by effort to recruit chairs from professions that failed to protect them
The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2025 Finding chair for grooming gangs inquiry could take months – Government source The probe has been thrown into disarray after the withdrawal of two candidates for chair, as well as five survivors from the advisory panel.
Evening Standard · Oct 23, 2025 Grooming gang inquiry may not begin until 2026 as search for chair 'could take months' The probe has been thrown into disarray after the withdrawal of two candidates for chair, as well as five survivors from the advisory panel