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2. PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT
The purpose of this document is to provide a shared understanding and approach which will guide the work of all partners to tackle violence against women in Scotland. This includes, but is not restricted to, the work of Community Planning Partnerships, Violence Against Women Multi-Agency Partnerships and Training Consortia around building capacity in the sector and the work of public bodies around meeting the statutory requirements set out in the Gender Equality Duty.
This shared understanding and approach is underpinned by a shared commitment across all partners to tackle violence against women as a fundamental activity towards achieving our National Outcomes (see 3.1 for specific Outcomes relevant to this area of work).
A shared approach is necessary to achieve greater consistency of service provision across Scotland, an increase in integrated working across this agenda within and outwith the Scottish Government and improved outcomes for women, children and communities. Ultimately, it should enable swifter progress to be made towards bringing about the changes in Scottish society that are required to eradicate violence against women.
This document will therefore:
- provide a definition of violence against women to underpin existing work and form the basis for future work;
- highlight the links between different forms of violence against women to support joined-up policy and practice development around the issue;
- guide the development of a shared approach for local and national work on violence against women underpinned by partnership;
- actively promote the development of existing effective measures and the adoption of new measures, at a local and national level, to address violence against women;
- ensure that work on violence against women is carried out across the 4 P's - Prevention, Protection, Provision and Participation.
Prevention - to prevent, remove or diminish the risk of violence against women and its impacts on children and young people
Protection - to protect women from victimisation, repeat victimisation or harassment by perpetrators and protect the children and young people affected
Provision - to provide adequate services to deal with the consequences of violence against women and children to help them to rebuild their lives
Participation - to ensure policy making and practice development around violence against women is shaped by the experiences, needs and views of those who use services
This document is not an action plan - all partners involved in driving forward this work will require to develop their own action plans in order to be able to monitor and report on progress.
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