Nic Adamson, Chair of the Collective Voice Women’s Treatment Working Group, responds to the recent publication of the Government’s new strategy to address violence against women and girls (VAWG).
The government’s new Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy contains many positive and sensible things. It reflects what women and frontline workers have said for years: early support matters, trauma-informed approaches work, and services must fit the reality of women’s lives. None of this is new, none of this is wrong.
What will determine whether good policy actually makes a difference is something more fundamental: a shift in systems and cultures that too often default to seeing women as risk, rather than people in need of compassion and care.
For too many women, asking for help still feels dangerous, with unpredictable consequences. For practitioners, fear of blame hangs over every decision. Hostile headlines flicker through the minds of committed professionals, who are too often left having to muster courage to act with compassion.
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