Online influencers are partly blamed for fuelling this. It’s been reported more than one in five young men hold a positive view of the self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate.
Over the last year alone, one in every eight women was a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking, according to Home Office figures.
The statistics also show that every day about 200 rapes are recorded by the police, and many more go unreported. Hundreds of thousands of children are estimated to be sexually abused every year.
Earlier this week, MPs on the justice committee wrote to the government complaining about the strategy being delayed.
The letter was signed by the committee’s chair, Andy Slaughter MP, who said: “Repeated delays in publications sends the message that tackling VAWG is not a government priority, despite the ambition to halve VAWG within the next decade.”
The strategy will have a cross-government approach including collaboration between the Home Office, Department of Health and Social Care, Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the BBC was told.
“There will also be a raft of new measures, so rapists and sex offenders have nowhere to hide. We will track down abusers, empower police forces with the tools they need to do so and put abusers on a course to stop their offending”, a government source said.
But it is not yet clear what these tools will be.
