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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Tackling misogyny in UK schools could take up to 20 years, says Jess Phillips

A group of mixed schoolchildren in uniform
Evidence that government policies are working – such as addressing misogyny among schoolchildren – could take years to emerge, said Phillips. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/Alamy

Plans to tackle misogyny in schools could take up to 20 years to have an impact on society, the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, has said as she outlined measures to protect women and girls.

Phillips spoke the day after the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) estimated that 2 million women were victims of violence perpetrated by men each year in an epidemic so serious it amounts to a “national emergency”.

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