Equally Safe Joint Strategic Board

Overview

The Equally Safe Joint Strategic Board (ESJSB) will drive change in relation to the aims and priorities of Equally Safe and the strategy’s implementation.

All of the board's actions should be to promote the safety of women and girls. All members of the board agree to adopt and work to prevent and eradicate violence against women and girls.

Before March 2019 this group was called ‘Violence Against Women Joint Strategic Board’.

Members

Joint Chairs

• Siobhian Brown MSP, Minister for Victims and Community Safety
• Councillor Maureen Chalmers, spokesperson for Community Wellbeing, COSLA

Members

• Amanda Coulthard, Local Authority Leadership, Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers
• Anna Mitchell, Systems Change, Safe and Together
• Catriona Kirkpatrick, Third Sector Specialist, Engender
• Eddie Docherty, Health, NHS
• Emma Forbes, Justice, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
• Joanna MacDonald, Social Care, Scottish Government
• Karen Allan, Housing and Homelessness, Association of Local Authority Chief Housing Officers
• Karyn McClusky, Justice, Community Justice Scotland
• Kelly McIntosh, Education, Association of Directors of Education Scotland
• Laura Tomson, Third Sector Specialist, Zero Tolerance
• Linda Thompson, Third Sector Specialist, Women’s Support Project
• Lucy Denvir, Public Health, NHS Fife
• Mariam Ahmed, Third Sector Specialist, AMINA
• Marsha Scott, Third Sector Specialist, Scottish Women’s Aid
• Mollie McGoran MSYP, Scottish Youth Parliament
• Sandy Brindley, Third Sector specialist, Rape Crisis Scotland
• Sophie Gwyther, Local Authority Leadership, Violence Against Women Partnership Network

Publications

Equally Safe Joint Strategic Board: terms of reference