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Equally Safe in Higher Education: Toolkit IMPLEMENTING A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO GBV PREVENTION IN SCOTTISH FURTHER & HIGHER EDUCATION Anni Donaldson University of Strathclyde @equallysafe. HE #ESHEToolkit Funded by the Scottish Government

GBV: UK Devolved Distinctions The NI Executive UK Gvt Ending VAWG Strategy 2016 - Stopping D & S Violence & Abuse • gender-neutral 2016 definition; • gender-neutral working definition; 2020 • covers all forms of GBV; • re-emphasised crime prevention approach; • new legislation introduced. Welsh Gvt VAW, DA & SV (Wales) Act 2015 • gendered analysis of abuse • requirement on public bodies to implement local & national GBV strategies; • holistic outcome focussed approach across all sectors including HE; • mainly domestic & sexual violence; • crime prevention focus; • focus on schools based primary prev strategy Scottish Gvt Equally Safe 2016 - A National Strategic Approach to Prevention of Va. WG • gendered analysis of abuse; • GBV barrier to gender equality • holistic approach to prev & early intervention; • primary, sec & tertiary prev, leg, support • national Va. WG Outcome Framework

“ “ No woman or girl in Scotland should be subjected to violence or abuse of any kind (physical, emotional, sexual or psychological) and no child or young person should have to experience genderbased violence or have to live with the impact of it. Our aim is to work collaboratively with key partners across all sectors to prevent and eradicate all forms of violence against women and girls. Equally Safe sets out a shared understanding of the causes, risk factors (Scottish Government 2016) http: //www. gov. scot/Resource/00454152. pdf

Kelly’s Continuum of Sexual Violence ‘The concept of a continuum highlights that sexual violence exists in most women’s lives, whilst the form it takes, how women define events and its impact on them at the time and over time varies. ‘ The continuum recognises that VAW affects women in private life, across social space and public life and can be perpetrated by men they know as well as strangers. ’ Kelly, L. (1987). The continuum of sexual violence Women, violence and social control (pp. 46 -60) p. 48

GBV: Gendered definition �arises from “gender inequality and cannot be understood, therefore, in isolation from the norms, social structure and gender roles within the community, which greatly influence women’s vulnerability to violence. ” �precludes neither the abuse of boys and men, same sex abuse nor female perpetration of such abuse. �can also include abuse by other family members, socalled ‘honour-based’ crimes and culturally harmful practices,

� G e n d e r b • Domestic abuse - also known as domestic violence, intimate partner violence (IPV), intimate partner terrorism, woman abuse & coercive control • Rape and sexual assault • Sexual harassment, bullying or intimidation in public, private or online, • sharing indecent images without permission including revenge ‘porn’ • Commercial Sexual Exploitation (including prostitution and pornography, sex trafficking) • Incest, Child/hood sexual abuse • So-called ‘honour based’ violence • Harmful cultural practices such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), forced & child marriage, female infanticide • Conflict-related sexual violence

GBV Risks- An Integrated Ecological Framework Macrosystem State & Society The wider context of national and global, social, legal, political, & economic systems which accepts, rejects or condones inequality & VAW Community/Exosystem: Factors in neighbourhoods & community structures: schools and colleges, workplaces, health, police & social care services, workplaces which increase risk of VAW Culture Social & cultural norms, discourses, practices, values and history which influence accepts, rejects or condones inequality & VAW . Family/relational microsystem interpersonal factors in intimate, personal, family & social relationships e. g. patriarchal attitudes/practices, sexually aggressive peer/social groups. Individual/ontogenic individual factors, personal qualities, the influence of childhood experiences and socialisation on attitudes, perceptions and social interactions linked to experiencing/perpetrating VAW

GBV in Scotland 1 in 5 children/young people in UK will experience DA by age 18 yrs* 95% (1901) rapes / attempted rapes recorded by Police Scotland had female victim* At least 32% of recorded sexual offences in Scotland 2014 -15 involved a victim under 18* 16 to 27 year old men are responsible for more than one third of reported rapes in Scotland* 4% of women in Scotland have experienced serious sexual assault since age 16* 1 in 4 female students reported unwanted sexual behaviour during their studies** 1 in 5 experienced sexual harassment during their first week of term** *Police Scotland **National Union of Students 2013

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