In a major intervention before the launch of the Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy – due before the government’s upcoming Spending Review – a coalition of charities including Vida, led by the specialist mental health and campaigning charity Woman’s Trust, are calling on Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to ensure survivors can finally get the counselling and therapy so many have told the government’s own DA Commissioner they so desperately need. Over 90 organisations and campaigners working across the VAWG, Mental Health and Domestic Abuse sectors have signed the open letter calling for an investment of around £28m to fund community-based specialist and long-term provision.
You can read the letter in full here:
Letter to secretaries of state and ministers 12 May 2025
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