Home Secretary to launch violence against women strategy

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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said violence against women and girls is a “national emergency”, as she confirmed the government will launch a new cross-department strategy next week aimed at delivering what she described as a “game-changing” response.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This strategy is a huge cross-government effort to deal with what we see as a national emergency

00:05of the scale of violence against women and girls in our country. We wanted to make sure we get it

00:10right. We wanted to make sure that we had buy-in from government departments all across Whitehall.

00:16We wanted to make sure that it was a proper effort to have a game-changing move on dealing

00:20with the national emergency of violence against women and girls. That's what we think we have now

00:24and we'll be launching the whole of the strategy next week.

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