‘Epidemic’ of violence against women and girls in UK is getting worse – report

Demonstrators on the London Women’s March earlier this month, protesting over VAWG and the erosion of reproductive rights in the US. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images

An “epidemic of violence against women and girls” in the UK is getting worse despite years of government promises and strategies, a highly critical report from Whitehall’s spending watchdog has said.

The National Audit Office report comes four years after a major government response to violence against women and girls (VAWG) was launched after the murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard.