The Baroness Casey report demands urgent learning, listening and comprehensive reform. This must happen.

White Ribbon UK supports Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth’s call to educate boys about the dangers of harmful behaviours that many young people are exposed to online.

We are very concerned about reports of misconduct and mismanagement within South Wales Fire and Rescue Service.

Whilst the Government is aiming is to reduce violence against women and girls with its Tackling Violence Against Women And Girls Strategy, there needs to be proper investment in primary prevention, specifically working with men and boys, to make a significant step change.

As the man responsible for the killing of Sarah Everard has pleaded guilt to her murder, White Ribbon UK, a leading charity that engages with men the cultures that lead to abuse and violence against women has repeated its call for men to recognise that if they don’t stand up to violence against women it won’t end.

Men have to speak out. It must not fall on women to have to change how they go about their lives because of the fear and risk of violence.

White Ribbon Day, 25th November, is going to fall in the middle of the general election campaign. We want candidates from all parties to show their commitment to ending make violence against women by making the White Ribbon Promise to never ‘commit, excuse, or remain silent about male violence against women’, #makethepromise and wearing a white ribbon.

The retired cricketer Geoffrey Boycott, who was given a knighthood on 10th September is not the first, and won’t be the last, convicted abuser to be lauded in public. The way in which society seems to be able to dismiss a man’s violence against a woman when set against some achievement, often sporting, is deeply concerning. In the case of Boycott, he was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend in 1998, given a 3 month suspended sentence and fined £5,300. He lost an appeal.