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)