The Police Reform White Paper sets out the government’s intention to rebuild trust in policing and improve how police respond to harm, including domestic abuse and violence against women and girls.

SafeLives stands ready to work with government, the judiciary, probation and wider criminal justice partners to ensure these reforms deliver genuine safety. Victim‑survivors deserve a system that consistently identifies domestic abuse, reduces risk, and holds perpetrators to account.

SafeLives welcomes the Government’s decision to commission an urgent independent inspection into recruitment and vetting standards at the Metropolitan Police.

SafeLives welcomes the Government’s new Violence Against Women and Girls strategy and its commitment to halve VAWG within a decade. That ambition is urgently needed. But it will only be realised if action is sustained, joined up across government, and properly resourced.

Without long term investment that reaches every community, the ambition to halve violence against women and girls within a decade will remain out of reach.

Racism and Islamophobia are making adult and child survivors less safe. Our CADA partners tell us some clients feel so intimidated in their communities that they’ve returned to abusive partners because the streets outside feel more dangerous. Hostile rhetoric and public displays are fuelling fear, not safety.

Our statement on new laws tackling porn that depicts strangulation: why this change protects adult and child survivors, how normalisation harms young people, and what happens next. Includes details of our partnership with IFAS, specialist NFS training, and Take A Breath project with Changemakers.

BBC Panorama: Undercover in the Police, 1st October 2025, reveals terrifying levels of misogyny, violence, racism and contempt towards the public. This culture has been normalised and allowed to go unchecked - it destroys trust.

Following the protests in London and elsewhere last week, the climate of intimidation and division is frightening for many - particularly racialised and migrant survivors, frontline professionals and communities. We stand with you. Our mission is to end abuse for good; our commitment is to dignity, safety and belonging for everyone.