Labour’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has launched the largest-ever cross-government public consultation to tackle violence against women and girls.

The consultation will look at police powers for dealing with serial perpetrators of domestic violence and a review of the sexualisation of teenage girls.

The Strategy - Together We Can End Violence Against Women And Girls – aims to tackle all forms of violence against women and girls and looks at what more can be done to challenge the attitudes that may uphold it in order to help women and girls feel safer.

Labour’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, said:
 
“Violence against women and girls is unacceptable in any form no matter what the circumstances are. We’ve already made real progress with domestic violence incidents more than halving in the last twelve years and great improvements to the way rape victims are supported.

“I want to start a national debate on what more we can do to prevent it and challenging attitudes which condone it. Most importantly, I want to reduce the fear of serious violence that can infringe the absolute right of women to go about their lives freely from fear.
 
“Over the next twelve weeks we will be speaking to thousands of people across the country, through an interactive website, in focus groups and with roadshows in more than 40 towns across the country. I want both men and women to engage with the consultation and tell us what would make them, or the women in their lives, feel and be safer.”


You can take part in the consultation at the Home Office website here