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UK Launches Strategy to Halve Violence Against Women, Centering Schools and Online Safeguards

The plan shifts focus to early classroom intervention with tighter online safeguards to cut abuse at its source.

Overview

  • All secondary schools in England must deliver healthy‑relationship education by 2029, with expert‑led pilots from 2026 and specialist training for teachers.
  • Pupils showing harmful behaviour will be enrolled in behaviour‑change programmes, and a new helpline will support teenagers worried about their own conduct.
  • NHS support for survivors will expand nationwide, including scaling the trauma‑informed child‑house model across England with up to £50m proposed for rollout.
  • Criminal‑justice measures include specialist rape and sexual offences teams across forces and a full rollout of Domestic Abuse Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  • Tech steps include banning "nudification" tools and pursuing nudity‑detection filters for children, as ministers cite one‑in‑eight women affected last year and watchdogs warn the funding, including a £20m schools package, may be insufficient.