{"id":5009,"date":"2023-07-26T08:39:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:50:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:50:25","slug":"welsh-government-targets-male-perpetrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/welsh-government-targets-male-perpetrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh government targets male perpetrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"D-Headlines\"><span lang=\"X-NONE\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"X-NONE\">The Welsh Government has launched the \u2018Sound\u2019 campaign to encourage men between 18 and 34 to reflect on their behaviours when it comes to violence against women and domestic abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"A-Basicstorywritingstyle\"><span lang=\"X-NONE\">\u201cWe want to make Wales the safest place for women to live fear free,\u201d said minister for social justice Jane Hutt. \u201cEarly intervention and prevention are vital to our plans. We must educate young men and boys about healthy relationships and ensure that we\u2019re putting the <\/span><span lang=\"X-NONE\">responsibility on them to stop violence against women and girls \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"A-Basicstorywritingstyle\"><span lang=\"X-NONE\">\u201c\u2018Sound\u2019 is there to initiate self-reflection by drawing attention to harmful behaviours such as love bombing, gaslighting and coercive control \u2013 helping men to recognise these behaviours in themselves and others, to get trusted, sound advice on how to address them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"A-Basicstorywritingstyle\"><span lang=\"X-NONE\">Social media, podcasts, TV and streaming channels will be used to deliver the message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"A-Basicstorywritingstyle\"><span lang=\"X-NONE\">Welsh government research shows 64% of all men in the devolved nation underestimate how many women are subject to abuse, while 39% regard efforts to achieve women\u2019s equality had led to discrimination against men. The government says that reflects a \u201cworrying shift\u201d in attitudes perpetuated by the rise of high-influence misogynists in the public domain.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Welsh Government has launched the \u2018Sound\u2019 campaign to encourage men between 18 and 34 to reflect on their behaviours when it comes to violence against women and domestic abuse. \u201cWe want to make Wales the safest place for women to live fear free,\u201d said minister for social justice Jane Hutt. \u201cEarly intervention and prevention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5012,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions\/5012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}