VAWG Takeover at Labour Conference: Putting Women and Girls at the Centre

As this year’s Labour Party Conference gets underway on Sunday, leading violence against women and girls (VAWG) organisations – including Refuge – are taking centre stage to call on the Government to turn its pledge to halve VAWG within a decade into meaningful action.

This joint press release sets out the sector’s united demands: a whole-system approach to ending all forms of VAWG, sustainable long-term funding – including ringfenced support for specialist ‘by and for’ services – and urgent protections for migrant and marginalised women.

With three days of events, the VAWG takeover will amplify frontline expertise and survivor voices, and call for meaningful engagement in shaping the Government’s forthcoming VAWG strategy. Refuge CEO Gemma Sherrington will speak alongside other sector leaders to make clear: pledges alone are not enough – we need transformative change.