April 2008 Introduction Background and Contexts What We are Aiming to Achieve The Need for an Overarching Gendered Framework The Benefits of a Violence Against Women Strategy Gathering the Evidence Challenges and Opportunities What We Will Focus on in Next Three Years - Future…

The Specialist Domestic Violence Court (SDVC) programme has been running since 2005 and there are now 127 courts across the country. Local Criminal Justice Boards (LCJBs) will have responsibility for the governance and perfomance management aspects of SDVCs from 1 April 2010. This list dated 23rd October 2009 shows at a glance what courts fall within each LCJB area and will help identify, which courts have received official accreditation.

This is the second Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) annual Violence against Women (VAW) performance report, and covers the following strands of Violence against Women for 2008-09: domestic violence; forced marriage; honour based violence; female genital mutilation; rape and sexual offences; human trafficking; prostitution; child abuse; and pornography.

This document looks at the success of the CPS' Violence against Women and Girls strategy for the period 2008-2011 and the key areas that need to be focused on going forward.

This resource manual was issued for use in those areas that were developing a specialist domestic violence (DV) court system as part of the Specialist Domestic Violence Court (SDVC) Programme. Updated in 2011.

This is the third Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Violence against Women (VAW) annual report, and covers the following strands of Violence against Women for 2009-10: domestic violence; forced marriage; honour based violence; female genital mutilation; rape and sexual offences; human trafficking; prostitution; child abuse; and pornography.

This is the sixth Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) annual report, and covers the following strands of Violence against Women and Girls for 2012-13: domestic violence; harassment; rape and sexual offences; human trafficking; prostitution; child abuse; and pornography.

This is the fifth Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) annual report, and covers the following strands of Violence against Women and Girls for 2011-12: domestic violence; harassment; rape and sexual offences; human trafficking; prostitution; child abuse; and pornography.

This is the fourth Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) annual report, and covers the following strands of Violence against Women and Girls for 2010-11: domestic violence; harassment; rape and sexual offences; human trafficking; prostitution; child abuse; and pornography.

This is the eighth Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) annual report, and covers the following strands of Violence against Women and Girls for 2014-15: child abuse; domestic abuse; forced marriage; harassment; honour-based violence; human trafficking; pornography; prostitution; and rape and sexual offences.