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The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence

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Meeting: 08/05/2024 - Plenary (Item 6)

Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee report - How we must all play our part: a public health approach to halting the epidemic in gender-based violence

NDM8569 Jenny Rathbone (Cardiff Central)

To propose that the Senedd:

Notes the Equality and Social Justice Committee report, ‘How we must all play our part: a public health approach to halting the epidemic in gender-based violence’, which was laid on Monday 15 January 2024.

Note: The response of the Welsh Government to the report was laid in the Table Office on 30 April 2024.

Minutes:

The item started at 15.51

NDM8569 Jenny Rathbone (Cardiff Central)

To propose that the Senedd:

Notes the Equality and Social Justice Committee report, ‘How we must all play our part: a public health approach to halting the epidemic in gender-based violence’, which was laid on Monday 15 January 2024.

Note: The response of the Welsh Government to the report was laid in the Table Office on 30 April 2024.

The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.


Meeting: 18/03/2024 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 1)

1 The public health approach to preventing Gender Based Violence: Advisory group meeting

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Minutes:

Members met with the Advisory Group - in private - to discuss the Welsh Government’s response to the Committee’s report regarding the public health approach to preventing Gender Based Violence.


Meeting: 11/03/2024 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 The public health approach to preventing Gender Based Violence: consideration of Welsh Government response

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Members considered the response.


Meeting: 26/02/2024 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Correspondence from the Chief Executive and Clerk of the Senedd to the Chair regarding the Committee's report on the public health approach to preventing gender-based violence

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Meeting: 04/12/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 7)

7 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: consideration of draft report

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Minutes:

Members considered the draft report and suggested some minor amendments. Members decided to further consider the report, once amendments had been made, outside of Committee.


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

2 Correspondence with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language regarding the monitoring of gender based violence interventions in schools

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

2 Correspondence from Policing in Wales regarding Perpetrator Programmes

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

2 Correspondence with the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Chair regarding the public health approach to preventing gender based violence

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

2 Correspondence with Welsh Women's Aid regarding the "Ask and Act" programme

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

2 Correspondence with the Deputy Minister for Social Services regarding the public health approach to preventing gender based violence

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

2 Correspondence from the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board regarding the Public Health approach to preventing gender based violence

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Meeting: 18/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 10

Jane Hutt MS, Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip

Paul Dear, Deputy Director, Cohesive Communities

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Minutes:

Members heard evidence from:

 

 

Jane Hutt MS, Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip

 

Paul Dear, Deputy Director, Cohesive Communities


Meeting: 18/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 5)

5 Forward work programme

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Minutes:

Members agreed the Forward Work Programme.


Meeting: 18/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

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

Minutes:

Members considered the evidence.


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

6 Correspondence with the Royal College of General Practitioners Wales regarding the public health approach to preventing gender-based violence

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

6 Correspondence with the Welsh Local Government Association regarding the public health approach to preventing gender-based violence

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

6 Correspondence with Local Health Boards and NHS Trusts regarding the public health approach to preventing gender-based violence

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

6 Correspondence with Public Health Wales regarding the public health approach to preventing gender-based violence

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

6 Correspondence with Policing in Wales regarding the public health approach to preventing gender-based violence

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

6 Correspondence with the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales regarding the public health approach to preventing gender-based violence

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

6 Correspondence with Sport Wales regarding the public health approach to preventing gender-based violence

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Meeting: 11/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 5)

5 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 9

Jeremy Miles MS, Minister for Education and Welsh Language

Sian Jones, Head of Supporting Achievement & Safeguarding

Lloyd Hopkin, Head of Curriculum Reform

 

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Minutes:

Members heard evidence from:

 

Jeremy Miles MS, Minister for Education and Welsh Language

Sian Jones, Head of Supporting Achievement & Safeguarding

Lloyd Hopkin, Head of Curriculum Reform

 


Meeting: 11/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 7)

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

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Members considered the evidence.


Meeting: 11/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

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

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Minutes:

Members heard evidence in private from the public health approach to preventing gender-based violence advisory group.


Meeting: 11/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 8

Eluned Morgan MS, Minister for Health and Social Services

Julie Morgan MS, Deputy Minister for Social Services

Richard Desir, Nursing Officer - Patient Experience

Alex Slade, Director of Primary Care and Mental Health

Sue Tranka, Chief Nursing Officer

Alistair Davey, Deputy Director, Enabling People, Social Services and Integration Directorate

 

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Minutes:

Members heard evidence from:

 

Eluned Morgan MS, Minister for Health and Social Services

 

Julie Morgan MS, Deputy Minister for Social Services

 

Richard Desir, Nursing Officer - Patient Experience

 

Alex Slade, Director of Primary Care and Mental Health

 

Sue Tranka, Chief Nursing Officer

 

Alistair Davey, Deputy Director, Enabling People, Social Services and Integration Directorate


Meeting: 10/07/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 5)

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

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Members considered the evidence.


Meeting: 10/07/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 7

Amanda Blakeman, Chief Constable for North Wales

Dafydd Llywelyn, Police and Crime Commissioner for Dyfed-Powys

Emma Wools, Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales

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Minutes:

Members heard evidence from:

 

Amanda Blakeman, Chief Constable for North Wales

Dafydd Llywelyn, Police and Crime Commissioner for Dyfed-Powys

Emma Wools, Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales


Meeting: 19/06/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 7)

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

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Members considered the evidence.


Meeting: 19/06/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 6)

6 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 6

Bethan Pell and Dr Honor Young, School Health Research Network

Alexa Gainsbury and Emily Van De Ventor, Public Health Wales

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Members heard evidence from:

 

Bethan Pell and Dr Honor Young, School Health Research Network

Alexa Gainsbury and Emily Van De Ventor, Public Health Wales


Meeting: 12/06/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 6)

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

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Members considered the evidence.


Meeting: 12/06/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 5

Professor Zara Quigg, Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Violence Prevention, Liverpool John Moores University

 

Dr Rachel Fenton, Associate Professor University of Exeter Law School, Director of Kindling Transformative Interventions

Minutes:

Members heard evidence from:

 

Dr Rachel Fenton, Associate Professor University of Exeter Law School, Director of Kindling Transformative Interventions

 

Dr Nathan Eisenstadt, Honorary Senior Research Associate University of

Exeter, Senior Research Associate University of Bristol, Director of Kindling

Transformative Interventions

 


Meeting: 12/06/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 4

Anne-Marie Lawrence, Wales Development Manager, Plan UK

 

Dr Stephen Burrell, Assistant Professor (Research), Durham University

 

Dr Nathan Eisenstadt, Honorary Senior Research Associate University of Exeter, Senior Research Associate University of Bristol, Director of Kindling Transformative Interventions

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Minutes:

Members heard evidence from:

Anne-Marie Lawrence, Wales Development Manager, Plan UK

 

Dr Stephen Burrell, Assistant Professor (Research), Durham University

 


Meeting: 22/05/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 7)

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

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Members considered the evidence received.


Meeting: 22/05/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

3 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 2

Dr Jen Daffin, Community Clinical Psychologist – Psychologists for Social Change

 

Oliver Townsend, Head of Partnerships and Practice - Platfform

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Members heard evidence from Dr Jen Daffin, Community Clinical Psychologist – Psychologists for Social Change and Oliver Townsend, Head of Partnerships and Practice – Platfform.


Meeting: 22/05/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 1

Lara Snowdon, Public Health Lead - Violence Prevention Unit, Public Health Wales

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Members heard evidence from Lara Snowdon, Public Health Lead - Violence Prevention Unit.

 

 


Meeting: 22/05/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 3

Johanna Robinson, National Adviser for Violence Against Women, Gender Based Violence, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence

 

Yasmin Khan, National Adviser for Violence Against Women, Gender Based Violence, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence

 

 

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Minutes:

Members heard evidence from Johanna Robinson and Yasmin Khan, National Advisers for Violence Against Women, Gender-based Violence, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence.


Meeting: 24/04/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 6)

6 The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: engagement approach

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Members considered options for engagement work regarding the Public Health approach to preventing gender-based violence inquiry.