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Targeted and consistent public messaging

Recommendation

By March 2026, the Home Office, as the lead department for the response to violence against women and girls, should agree funding for a multi-year series of public information campaigns centred around the prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces. These campaigns should be managed and funded centrally by the UK Government, but rolled out regionally and locally in a sustainable and consistent way. They should all have the same central purpose and messaging, and include evaluation metrics based on behaviour and attitudinal change, as well as communications reach and engagement.

This recommendation should not be seen to supersede any progress made against Recommendation 5 from the Part 1 Report (the Home Office should launch a public information campaign on indecent exposure). Instead, any activity to implement Recommendation 5 from the Part 1 Report should seek to incorporate any relevant learning from this, subsequent, recommendation as part of the response (despite the passage of time and nine-month delay in implementation; see Chapter 1 on the implementation of recommendations from the Part 1 Report for further details on this).

Published Evidence Summary
The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:
- This is a Part 2 recommendation from the Angiolini Inquiry Part 2 First Report, published 2 December 2025, calling for agreed funding for multi-year public information campaigns on preventing sexually motivated crimes by March 2026 (Angiolini Inquiry Part 2 First Report, December 2025).
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Jess Phillips made a written statement to Parliament (HCWS1122) on 2 December 2025 accepting all 13 Part 2 recommendations, announcing £13.1 million in funding to the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection (Written Statement HCWS1122, 2 December 2025).
- The March 2026 deadline for agreeing campaign funding has now passed.
- No specific public evidence that funding for a multi-year series of public information campaigns centred on sexually motivated crimes in public spaces has been agreed as of March 2026.
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Jurisdiction
England
Section Reference
Recommendation 19
Response
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Source
Report Angiolini Inquiry Part 2 First Report: Prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces 02 Dec 2025
Responsible Bodies
Home Office Primary
Recommendation age 0.7 yr
Last formal update No formal updates