The Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) Partnership, working with Kensington and Chelsea Council and Westminster City Council, undertook extensive engagement and consultation to inform the development of a new five-year VAWG Strategy. VAWG is the umbrella term used to describe a range of violent and abusive acts and behaviours, including: domestic abuse (including coercive control), rape and sexual violence, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, crimes in the name of 'honour’, sexual harassment, stalking, trafficking, prostitution/sexual exploitation. The Councils (Kensington and Chelsea Council and Westminster City Council) sought the views of those who live, work and study in the two boroughs, to better understand the needs in the borough and to establish the strategic direction of this vital work. The consultation was an opportunity for residents, businesses and other stakeholders to tell the VAWG Partnership how safe they felt in the borough, what needs to be done to better support survivors, and what should be our priorities to make our boroughs safer. This survey was part of a wider consultation process which included online workshops with a range of professionals and focus group sessions with survivors and experts through experience.
The ideas, priorities and suggestions provided by our residents through this survey have informed the development of our new five-year Ending Violence against Women and Girls Strategy. This strategy will set out the commitment of the wider partnership and the role we can all play to end VAWG as part of a coordinated community response.
These priorities are:
Next steps:
We are now developing our strategy using these four priority areas to frame our approach. We are expecting to launch our new strategy to coincide with the United Nations 16 Days of Activism to End Violence against Women, November 25 to December 10 2021.
The Councils (Kensington and Chelsea Council and Westminster City Council) are seeking the views of those who live, work and study in the two boroughs, to inform the development of the next Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy. The survey should take no more than five minutes.
Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) is the umbrella term used to describe a range of violent and abusive acts and behaviours, including:
Everyone aged 16 or over is welcome to contribute to this survey and you do not have to have personally experienced violence or abuse to take part. Anyone can experience violence against women and girls, regardless of their sex, age, race, gender, class, culture, sexuality or religion. However, the term ‘VAWG’ is used to reflect that gender based violence is predominately a pattern of behaviour perpetrated by men against women.
More information on violence against women and girls and how to access support can be found on the Kensington and Chelsea website and on the Westiminster City Council website. If you need support or are worried about someone experiencing violence against women and girls, please call 999 in an emergency.
This survey will run for a period of six weeks, and will close on Sunday 20 June 2021 – your participation in this consultation is voluntary. Should you choose to respond, information about how your data will be processed can be found at the end of the survey.
If you have any queries, or would like to request a survey in paper, translated into another language or provided in any other accessible format, you can speak with a member of the Community Safety Team by phone or email using the contact details provided in the Contact section of this page.
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