Gender Based Violence

(asked on 17th March 2026) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 3 March 2026 to question 115217, what timeline the Government is working to in considering the best way to measure the prevalence of VAWG among children and young people in the Freedom from Violence and Abuse Strategy.


Answered by
Jess Phillips Portrait
Jess Phillips
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
This question was answered on 23rd March 2026

As stated in response to your question on 3rd March, we recognise the importance of understanding the experiences of children and young people. As such the performance framework in the Freedom from Violence and Abuse Strategy includes a sub-metric on the prevalence of VAWG among children and young people and work is ongoing to determine the most robust and appropriate way to measure this. We will continue to develop this approach as the wider framework evolves.

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