Mayor’s plan to tackle Violence Against Women & Girls

A radical new approach to tackling violence against women and young girls has been launched by Liverpool’s first female Mayor, Joanne Anderson.

Among the aims of the three-year strategy are:

• Ensuring that demand for services is better met

• For women and girls to feel confident in calling out and challenging inappropriate behaviour

• A robust and consistent approach to raising awareness and taking action in schools

It follows three stages of rigorous consultation to engage various sectors and social groups across Liverpool, including young girls and students who shared their experiences in and out of school, as well as organisations involved in supporting those affected.

There are 250,000 women in Liverpool and it is estimated that 30 per cent of women and girls experience violence in some form in their lifetime.

In addition to the strategy, Liverpool City Council, together with Police Commissioner Emily Spurrell, has secured £846k from the Home Office for the Safer Streets Liverpool project which has seen an increased uniformed police presence around transport hubs and on key bus routes, more CCTV, help point and a text message system to report concerns.

Campaign to reduce dog fouling a howling success

A campaign to tackle dog fouling in parts of Liverpool has seen a dramatic decline in the messy issue – with some areas seeing the problem more than halved.

The campaign is one of five key themes in a new partnership between Liverpool City Council and Keep Britain Tidy as part of a 12-month action programme to make Liverpool a cleaner city.

New evaluation data shows the problem has

New Deputy Mayor appointed

Councillor Frazer Lake has been appointed as Deputy Mayor of Liverpool. He takes over the statutory responsibility of formally deputising for Mayor Joanne Anderson.

Mayor Joanne said: “Councillor Lake has been a great asset to my Cabinet & the wider Council in his role as Cabinet Member for Social Care & Health, along with becoming the lead for

Contracts & Commissioning and I know he will bring his enthusiasm and experience to his new role.”

Councillor Jane Corbett will retain her title of Deputy Mayor but without statutory responsibilities, and will also continue with her Cabinet portfolio as lead member for Fairness & Tackling Poverty.