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.

Content

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)