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<p>The Home Office Homicide Index shows that between 2012/13 and 2019/20 there were
1,005 female victims (aged 16 and over) of homicide where the suspect was male.</p><p>The
Government takes women’s safety very seriously and is determined to tackle crimes
which disproportionately affect women and girls.</p><p>We have published a new Tackling
Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy and will be publishing a complementary
Domestic Abuse Strategy in the New Year. The new strategies will help transform the
response to these crimes, from prevention and raising awareness, support to victims
and survivors, to ensuring perpetrators are brought to justice.</p><p>As part of the
new VAWG Strategy commitments, work is underway to launch a national communications
campaign in the New Year, which will focus on targeting perpetrators, educating young
people about healthy relationships and ensuring victims can access support.</p><p>We
are doing a considerable amount of work on domestic homicides which is a horrific
crime that disproportionately impacts females. Homicide Index data for 2017/18 to
2019/20 show that 76% of victims of domestic homicide were female. The Home Office
worked with the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s domestic abuse and homicide leads
to fund a rapid review pilot at the start of the first lockdown to track domestic
homicides and enable the police to respond to spikes.</p><p>We firmly believe that
tackling perpetrators of abuse is key to reducing domestic homicides. In 2020/21,
the Chancellor announced £10 million in funding for DA perpetrator programmes, which
was the first fund of its kind. This year the funding has increased to £25 million,
more than doubling the funding for addressing perpetrators of domestic abuse. Of this,
over £18 million has been provided to local areas to introduce new perpetrator programmes
this year.</p><p>In addition to this, Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) must be considered
for all deaths involving a person over the age of 16 where domestic abuse has, or
appears to have been a factor. We have undertaken to create a central repository for
all DHRs which will allow us to better understand the patterns and trends of domestic
homicides.</p><p> </p>
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