Equally Safe: delivery plan - easy read

Our 14 tasks

We have 14 tasks to work on from 2024 to 2026.

These tasks are also called deliverables.

1. We will make sure our work helps minority ethnic women.

In Scotland, minority ethnic groups include people who are:

• African
• Caribbean
• Chinese
• Gypsy Traveller
• Indian
• Irish
• Pakistani
• Polish

2. We will make sure that our work helps women and girls with learning disabilities.

Having a learning disability means finding some things harder to learn.

3. We will ask organisations all over Scotland to work together to stop violence against women and girls from happening before it starts.

4. We will find out how best to collect the details about how much of this kind of violence happens across Scotland.

5. We will make sure many more people across Scotland know about violence against women and girls.

This is called public engagement work.

6. We will work together with places like schools, colleges and universities – to help people to understand what violence against women and girls is.

7. We will make sure that funding helps organisations to give good services to women and girls who have had violence happen to them.

Funding means the money that we need to do work across Scotland and the way we share it out.

8. We will help workplaces to better understand violence against women and girls.

And to use their new skills to support their staff better.

9. We will get better at understanding how technology can make it easier for women and girls to experience violence or abuse.

In this document, technology means things like:

• smartphones
• online – on the internet
• cameras
• apps

10. We will help health care staff to notice and support women and girls who:

• may be experiencing violence and abuse
• may have experienced violence or abuse in the past

11. We will work closer with other public protection organisations.

Public protection means keeping everyone in Scotland as safe as possible.

Public protection organisations include:

• the NHS
• Police Scotland
• the prison service
• local councils

We will work with them to:

• stop violence from happening
• make life better for women and girls after violence has happened

12. We will make sure that justice services help women, children and girls who have had violence happen to them.

Justice services include:

• Police Scotland
• the prosecution service
• courts

13. We will write a new action plan to put the suggestions from the Istanbul Convention into our work.

The Istanbul Convention is a human rights agreement that aims to stop violence against women and girls.

Human rights are everyone’s freedoms that are protected in law.

They make sure we are treated fairly and with dignity.

14. We will have a good leadership system so that we can make sure good work is happening.