Issue - meetings

[Report of the Director of Public Health. To be introduced by the Cabinet Member for Communities] Cabinet will be asked to agree the responses to the  Scrutiny review recommendations, set out appendix 1 of the report.

Councillor Vanier, Deputy Leader, and Cabinet Member for Communities, thanked the Environment and Community Safety Panel for their work on identifying and investigating this significant issue. Violence against women and girls was a corporate priority as part of outcome 3. The Cabinet Member endorsed the recommendations of the review and was pleased that a violence against women and girls strategy was being developed. The strategy group would be the vehicle through which the issues raised by the review will be considered.

It was noted that some of the recommendations would be challenging and will require working with partners as part of the coordinated community response to violence against women and girls which were being implemented locally.

The Cabinet Member for Communities further explained that some of the recommendations had been partially agreed as there were budget implications which needed to be explored further.

RESOLVED

That the responses to the scrutiny review be agreed.