Decision details
VAWG and Women’s Safety Strategy
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: For Determination
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
The Council’s VAWG and Women’s
Safety Strategy 2024-29, produced through extensive engagement with
residents, partners and stakeholders through the VAWG Needs
Assessment and strategy workshops.
Decision:
DECISION
1. Approve the council’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and Women’s Safety Strategy (Appendix 1 to the report).
2. Acknowledge that addressing and preventing violence against women and girls requires a whole system response and consider how members can support the delivery of this across the organisation, improving and strengthening system leadership of this cross cutting and critical agenda.
3. Requests that the Corporate Director for Health and Adult Social Care takes the lead for corporate delivery of the Strategy.
Action by
CORPORATE DIRECTOR COMMUNITIES (S. BAXTER) AND
CORPORATE DIRECTOR FOR HEALTH AND ADULT SOCIAL CARE (G. CHIMBANI)
Director of Community Safety (A. Corbett)
Report author: Alicia Jones
Publication date: 22/10/2024
Date of decision: 16/10/2024
Decided at meeting: 16/10/2024 - Cabinet
Accompanying Documents:
- VAWG and Women’s Safety Strategy
PDF 302 KB - Appendix. 1 for VAWG and Women’s Safety Strategy
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- Appendix. 2 for VAWG and Women’s Safety Strategy
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- Appendix. 3 for VAWG and Women’s Safety Strategy
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- Appendix. 4 for VAWG and Women’s Safety Strategy
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- Appendix. 5 for VAWG and Women’s Safety Strategy
PDF 350 KB
- Appendix. 6 for VAWG and Women’s Safety Strategy
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