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We will improve how we listen to those impacted by Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG). We will involve them in our plans, introduce external scrutiny of VAWG cases, and share more data with the public. We will take specific action to understand how we can improve engagement with Black and minoritised women and girls, taking into account the needs of different age groups and the impact of intersectionality.
We are creating new ways to hear the views of those affected by VAWG and the policing response to it.
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We aim to launch the first VAWG scrutiny panel in October 2024.
We'll use these new approaches to better engage with our VAWG partners and communities across London (in particular, minoritised women) to make sure we understand their concerns, learn lessons and can seek ways of collaborating on tangible solutions.
The MetGirlz 10 week programme continues across London, building trust between young women and the police. Its goal is to promote the Met as a career choice for young women.
We have recently run the programme in Central East Basic Command Unit (BCU) to 12 young women and plans are underway for programme delivery in East Area BCU. We are working with Highfield Qualifications to scope the possibility of accrediting the course so girls will obtain an official recognised qualification upon graduation of the programme.
In the last six months, we have increased the scale of data we share about crimes, including VAWG, with our partners and the public. These can be accessed by the public through our website and through the London Datastore – Greater London Authority.
We now share over 100 anonymised data fields with our local authority partners so that we can all meet our responsibilities under the Serious Violence Duty. We continue to support Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and the Greater London Authority in their automation of shared data into a 'Safe Stats' system. This platform is part of a broader effort to share more data on VAWG with partners and the public in an ethical manner and use it to reduce disparity in outcomes.
In the last two months, we have released data on female homicide committed in 2023. This is now available to everyone through our publication scheme. We have committed to sharing the high-level details of these cases, such as relationship to offender, ethnicity of victim and suspect. This is so that we can work better in partnership to understand and prevent these offences. We have committed to expanding this data from previous years so long-term trends are more transparent to the public as well as researchers.
Each local leader has new responsibilities to work with VAWG partners, community members and victim groups. We have launched a new neighbourhood model to make sure we are listening and working on local issues more effectively.