Safer Lives: Changed Lives: A Shared Approach to Tackling Violence Against Women

1. Safer Lives: Changed Lives: A Shared Approach to Tackling Violence Against Women Why VAW Matters to Local Government Lindsay Macgregor

2. Back Story • From Women’s Aid + Rape Crisis to Multi-Agency Partnerships and Training Consortia • From Domestic Violence to Domestic Abuse • From single issue to Community Safety/Health and Wellbeing

3. Transformed Landscape • Concordat - Scottish Government and Local Government • Single Outcome Agreements – Community Planning Priorities for Improvement • Equality Duty – violence against women as a genderequality as well as community safety, health, economy-related issue

4. Transformations for Local Government • Change in knowledge and understanding required of elected members in leadership and scrutiny roles • Broadening the agendas to make links via gender equality across all forms of violence against women • Linking violence against women into wider gender equality agenda

5. Transforming Partnerships • Are we “fit for purpose” for transforming the agenda? • Shared vision and understanding of violence against women, wider links, and Gender Equality Duty • Community engagement • Membership of partnerships and consortia • Outcomes, objectives, actions and measures • Data, information and knowledge gathering • Training needs • Resource allocation • Review

6. Step Changes? • Broadening the agenda, understanding and making the links • Relevant gender-disaggregated data collection and analysis • More widely owned prevention agenda • Increased engagement with women and communities • Stronger links between partnerships and services

7. The Challenges • Agendas • Making the transition • Resources • Achieving the outcomes • Next Steps

8. Violence Against Women – Why it Matters • High cost to women and children • High cost to communities and to society • Cuts across delivery and outcomes on all policy areas • Needs to stop

9. Lindsay MacgregorCOSLA0131 474 9270lindsay@cosla.gov.uk