The Home Office has also sought to improve its understanding of what works by conducting a review of the available evidence at a national level, which it intends to publish with the new VAWG strategy, in summer 2025.45 Officials told us that this work has provided some valuable insights on the importance of education; bystander interventions; screening to identify domestic abuse survivors; perpetrator programmes and therapeutic support. However, there was weaker evidence around what sorts of communications campaigns really work, and whether there is a greater role for specialist courts.46 Gaps in data and inconsistent definitions