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England planning proposals fail to mention safety of women and girls, say critics

Draft proposals likely to ‘embed risk and inequality’, campaigners and urban planners say

The Guardian - UK

‘A stranger stopped me in the street and asked me for my number. Then I found out he was secretly filming me’

Experts say smart glasses are being used to violate women’s privacy and threaten their safety online

The Independent UK

New law set to protect dating app users from ‘vile crime’ of cyberflashing

Social media and dating platforms are legally mandated to proactively detect and prevent unsolicited nude images from reaching their users

The Independent UK

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‘They thought we were problem children’: how grooming victims were failed in Oldham

National inquiry on grooming gangs will look at how police ignored girls while officials feared fuelling the far right

The Guardian - UK

‘Hidden crisis’ of 40,000 women and girls going missing every year due to violence

Women open up about abuse that led to disappearance, after government VAWG strategy is silent on missing people, as The Independent hopes to launch national lifeline SafeCall

The Independent UK

UK government strategy to protect women and girls from violence ‘seriously underfunded’

Campaigners welcome plans but say poor funding means Labour’s ambitions unlikely to be met

The Guardian - UK

Misogynistic abuse is a ‘national emergency’ – and it starts online

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips is to be applauded for treating the problem of violence against women and girls with the same seriousness and techniques used to foil terrorism – but still more can be done to control the tech giants who make money out of pushing…

The Independent UK

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Badenoch accused of making ‘deeply inaccurate’ claims about violence against women

Tory leader says Labour should focus on migrants ‘from cultures that don’t respect women’ rather than tackling misogyny in schools

The Guardian - UK

UK government unveils plans to tackle deepfake abuse

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The Independent UK

Crackdown on deepfake abuse part of strategy to tackle violence against women

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips announced the move as she set out the Government’s Vawg strategy.

Evening Standard

AI ‘nudification’ to be banned under new plans to tackle violence against women

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips declared ‘change is coming’

The Independent UK

Labour: We’ll treat violence against women like terror and gang crime

Jess Phillips promises ‘change is coming’ as long-awaited violence against women and girls strategy is published

The Independent UK

'Detect Early Signs of Misogyny': UK Teachers to Be Trained to Spot Signs of Misogyny in Boys

In hopes of detecting early signs of misogyny, UK teachers will be given training to spot it inside the classroom as part of the government's eagerly anticipated plan to reduce violence against women and girls by fifty percent over the next ten years.

International Business Times UK

Teachers in England face growing misogyny and need help dealing with sexual aggression, says Phillips

Comments from safeguarding minister come as violence against women and girls strategy due to launch

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Evening Standard

Government focused on prevention to tackle violence against women – minister

The plans include all pupils in secondary schools being taught about healthy relationships, with teachers trained to spot worrying behaviour in boys.

The Guardian - UK

Badenoch says teaching boys about misogyny shouldn’t be a priority because migrants more dangerous to women and girls – as it happened

Tory leader dismisses the government’s newly published strategy as a ‘complete distraction’

The Independent UK

Schools to tackle influence of Andrew Tate with compulsory lessons on consent

The flagship £36m strategy will finally be unveiled 18 months after Labour was elected with a manifesto promise to halve violence against women and girls within a decade

The Guardian - UK

Government’s process behind tackling violence against women ‘worse than under the Tories’

Exclusive: As Labour ministers prepare long awaited strategy, campaigners accuse them of sidelining experts

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The Guardian - UK

Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield to chair grooming gangs inquiry

Peer named as chair of national inquiry, which is expected to cover England and Wales, after long-delayed search

Evening Standard

OPINION - The grooming gang scandal needed a judge-led inquiry

Anne Longfield is a decent woman, but that’s not enough for this challenge

Evening Standard

Jess Phillips: ‘Schools get asked to do too much’

Speaking at the Girls’ School Association Conference, the minister for violence against women and girls said teachers should ‘whinge more’.

The Independent UK

Teachers should ‘whinge more’ like Birmingham bin workers, Jess Phillips says

The MP said schools have not been thanked enough for how much they have been asked to take on

The Independent UK

‘Unjust’ grooming ‘child prostitution’ convictions to be pardoned

Home Office acknowledges victims were ‘criminalised for actions that occurred under duress, fear and coercion’

The Conversation

Why the UK’s grooming gangs inquiry is in turmoil – and what needs to happen now

The UK’s grooming gangs inquiry appears to be in turmoil before it has even started, following the resignation of several women from its victim liaison panel. Their complaints related mainly to appointments to chair the inquiry and the potential for its focus to be widened.

Evening Standard

Nigel Farage urged to apologise to five survivors of grooming gangs for 'ignorance and untrue statements'

Reform UK leader suggested the women invited on to the child sexual exploitation inquiry panel were victims of other types of child sexual abuse

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