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

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…

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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