The New Statesman.

After being pushed back, not once, not twice, but three times, the government's long-awaited strategy to half-violence against women and girls has been revealed.

Measures include training teachers to spot signs of misogyny in the classroom, and police forces introducing specialist rape and sexual assault investigation teams.

But do they go far enough?

I'm Luke O'Reilly and I'm joined now by my colleague Rachel Cunleff.

Hello.

Hello, Rachel.

Well, obviously the scale is very grim and every day there's 200 rapes are recorded by the police

and more go unreported.

Nearly 40% of teenagers in relationships are victims

of abuse, domestic abuse charity, producing the risk is said. And obviously the scale of the recent

attacks. And each time these things happen, they end up setting the news agenda being talked for

weeks. But the question is always, what are the government actually doing about it? And are

they even meeting the scale of the problem? Yeah we have these really horrific events like the murder of Sarah Everard, Zara Alina in

2022, in 2024, the aggrieved ex-boyfriend who went and killed his ex and her sister and her mother with a crossbow.

And every time we sort of have this conversation about what does it say about us as a society?

You know, what can, and then the government, whichever the government is, Conservatives, Labour, say we have to take action.

And then, you know, what happens to it?

This specific issue, violence against women and girls, has been called

a national emergency. And it's been called a national emergency for several years now,

which is, again, pretty grim. And Labour made harving violence against women and girls by the end

of the decade one of its core missions. So in terms of like the context for this strategy

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