The police inspectorate has today (22nd August 2024) published its report on progress in delivering a new model for investigating rape and serious sexual offences, known as Operation Soteria. Operation Soteria is one of the most promising outcomes of the…
The End Violence Against Women Coalition, #NotYourPorn and Professor Clare McGlynn are calling on the next government to protect women’s rights and freedoms online, in partnership with GLAMOUR magazine. In a new campaign launched today (19th June 2024), the experts…
As part of its ongoing End-to-End Rape Review, the government has last month (15th April 2024) released data showing the shocking scale of police requests for rape survivors’ ‘third party materials’ - their private counselling notes, mobile phone data, and…
The government has today (23rd April 2024) accepted an amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill that will raise the legal threshold for when rape survivors’ counselling notes can be requested by the police. The amendment was tabled in the House of…
Today (17th April 2024) Eastenders will air an hour-long special focusing on a storyline about sexual assault. The soap’s Yolande Trueman will be subjected to a sexual assault at the hands of her church pastor, following a period of sexual…
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has this week (12th March 2024) published the final findings of its research on improving responses to rape - part of Operation Soteria, of the most promising outcomes of the government’s Rape Review. Despite rape…
Lady Eilish Angiolini has today (29th February 2024) published the findings of her independent inquiry into how Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens was able to abduct, rape and murder Sarah Everard - finding a series of utterly shocking failings to…
The Crown Prosecution Service has today (26th January 2024) released the findings of its research on public understanding of rape with strategic communications experts Equally Ours, which aims to improve the handling and prosecution of rape and other sexual offences.…
A new survey of counsellors and therapists has found that current laws and policing practices prevent rape survivors from accessing therapy, limit its effectiveness and pose serious ethical challenges. The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) survey of their members…
This week (4th December 2023) Maria Miller MP spoke in Parliament on her amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill, supported by the Lord Chancellor and former Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland MP. The amendment would provide greater…