Meetings

Women’s safety and gender-based violence

This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.

Note: Meeting Agenda can change at short notice. Particularly where future meeting dates are indicated more than a week in advance. Please check before planning to attend a Committee Meeting that the item you are interested in has not been moved.

 

 

Meeting: 09/06/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Correspondence from the Office of National Statistics to the Chair regarding new ways on which data is being collected in relation to women suffering from domestic abuse

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Meeting: 09/06/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Correspondence from the Welsh Government's Gender Equality Team to the Chair regarding VAWDASV Research Network Wales

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Meeting: 03/06/2024 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

3 Correspondence between the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice and the Chair regarding the Committee's report: "How we must all play our part: a public health approach to halting the epidemic in genderbased violence"

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Meeting: 04/12/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

3 Correspondence between the Chair and Policing in Wales regarding perpetrator programmes

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Meeting: 23/10/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Correspondence from the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip and the Deputy Minister for Social Services regarding VAWDASV and the care system for children in Wales

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Meeting: 16/10/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Correspondence from the Minister for Health and Social Services regarding sexual harassment in surgical settings

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Meeting: 11/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 6)

6 Correspondence from the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Social Services regarding Public Health approaches to preventing gender based violence

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Meeting: 15/05/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 5)

The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: consideration of evidence

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Members considered the evidence received during their discussion with the Advisory Group.

Meeting: 15/05/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: advisory group

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Minutes:

Members met with the Advisory Group.

Meeting: 27/02/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 10)

10 Preventing gender-based violence: Engagement approach paper

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Members considered and agreed the engagement approach paper.

Meeting: 04/07/2022 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

3 Pre-appointment hearing for the National Adviser for Violence Against Women, Gender-based Violence, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence

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Members heard from Johanna Robinson and Yasmin Khan in the pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence.

Meeting: 20/06/2022 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Letter from the Minister for Social Justice regarding the pre-appointment hearing for the National Adviser(s) for Violence Against Women Gender-based Violence, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence

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Meeting: 21/03/2022 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 9)

9 Forward work programme

Forward Work Programme

Women’s safety and gender-based violence: Revised Terms of Reference

 

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Minutes:

Members considered and agreed the Forward Work Programme.

 

 

Meeting: 14/03/2022 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

Group discussions

Minutes:

3.1 Participants joined breakout rooms to discuss the draft Terms of Reference for an inquiry into women's safety and gender-based violence. The draft terms of reference for the inquiry are as follows:


- Women’s and girl’s experience and perception of violence and sexual harassment in public places in Wales, such as public transport, cities, schools, green spaces etc. The need/ scope for future legislation to increase the safety of women and girls in Wales, particularly in relation to public sexual harassment.

 

- Violence against women and girls in the home, including police handling/ understanding of their duty (at the request of the woman) to intervene in domestic violence situations, even when it occurs in the home.

 

- A focus on neglected groups and issues to better understand how violence differs for different parts of the population, specifically women with insecure immigration status, or whose immigration status is dependent on a spouse or employer.

 

- The scope, coverage and commissioning of services and interventions for survivors in Wales, and any impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on third sector organisations that provide shelters, legal aid and support services.

 

- The Welsh Government’s approach to primary prevention and whether enough effort is being made to stop violence before it occurs by working with key groups (such as men, adolescents of children who have witnessed abuse), and to change cultural and social norms that support gender-based violence.

 

- Whether Welsh Government budget allocations are adequate to fully implement the Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015 and implement the next phase of its national strategy for 2022-26, including consideration of whether there has been cost-effective resource investment to strengthen expertise in key sectors and to improve service delivery bottlenecks (i.e. in order for the Welsh Government to deliver on its policy commitments to ending violence against women and girls).

 

 

 

 

 

Meeting: 14/03/2022 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Opening comments and welcome from the Chair

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2.1 The Chair welcomed Members and participants to the meeting.

 

Meeting: 14/03/2022 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 5)

Closing comments

Minutes:

The Chair thanked the participants for their contributions and closed the meeting.

 

Meeting: 14/03/2022 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

Feedback from group sessions

Minutes:

4.1 Each group reported back their key findings.

 

Meeting: 14/03/2022 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 1)

Registration

Minutes:

1.1 Participants registered for the meeting.

 

Meeting: 07/03/2022 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 Correspondence from the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee: Role of health boards in safeguarding women and children who may be experiencing domestic abuse

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