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'Domestic Violence Consultation: Your Chance to Respond' by Tony Roe
14 May 2009

30% of women have experienced domestic violence since the age of 16. Two women a week are killed by their partner or former partner. It is against this backdrop that the Government launched its consultation paper earlier this year entitled, “Together we can end violence against women and girls”.

The aims of the consultation include raising awareness of the scale and nature of violence against women and girls and to generate national debate to identify what would make women and girls feel, and be, safer. It also aims to test policy proposals and ideas designed to help prevent such violence.

Following completion of the consultation period, the Government says that it will issue a strategy to ensure that coordinated activity is undertaken  to reduce and prevent violence against women.

The consultation can be found at: www.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Responses are due by 29 May 2009.

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