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In your report (Government not learning lessons from deaths of domestic abuse victims, report finds, 15 July), the\u00a0domestic abuse commissioner rightly calls for the government\u2019s strategy on violence against women and girls to \u201clink more closely to the NHS plan\u201d. We agree and would go further \u2013 the approach to violence against women must be joined up across all relevant government departments, agencies and public services.<\/p>\n
As barristers, we see violence against women and girls, coercive\/controlling behaviour and domestic abuse daily \u2013 not only in the criminal courts, which you would expect, but also in our family courts, where it\u2019s estimated by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service and Women\u2019s Aid Federation that domestic abuse allegations are present in more than 60% of private\u00a0law children cases.<\/p>\n
To take a narrow view of violence against women and girls by looking only through the lens of the criminal justice system would miss countless opportunities to prevent harm. As the government finalises its strategy over the summer, we urge ministers to take a broad and joined-up approach. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In your report (Government not learning lessons from deaths of domestic abuse victims, report finds, 15 July), the\u00a0domestic abuse commissioner rightly calls for the government\u2019s strategy on violence against women and girls to \u201clink more closely to the NHS plan\u201d. We agree and would go further \u2013 the approach to violence against women must be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1575,5026,3355,4124,1670,1388,418],"class_list":{"0":"post-11598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-girls","9":"tag-joinedup","10":"tag-needed","11":"tag-protect","12":"tag-strategy","13":"tag-violence","14":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Barbara Mills<\/strong>
Chair, the Bar Council<\/em><\/p>\n