Ministers are set to announce plans to intervene early on worrying behaviour of young people as part of the Government’s strategy to halve violence against women and girls (Vawg) in a decade. Schools to take part in the teacher training pilot will be chosen next year, while ministers aim for all secondary schools to teach healthy relationship sessions by the end of this Parliament. Vawg minister Jess Phillips said: “For too long the scale of violence against women and girls has been treated as a fact of life in our country. “I am determined our groundbreaking strategy will prevent women and girls from actually being harmed in the first place. “Put together, from today, it will deploy the full power of the state to introduce the largest crackdown to stop violence perpetrated against women and girls in British history.”

Source: The Times December 18, 2025 07:03 UTC