Andy Burnham to head public education campaign in Greater Manchester to stop violence against women

Speaking to “Sky News Trevor Phillips on Sunday”, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham announced he would be heading a high-profile public education campaign in the area, aimed at men and boys.

Burnham said that the campaign “will talk about how behaviour can make women feel when perhaps they’re out late at night on public transport or walking in a dark street”.

Burnham also told Andrew Marr this morning that, “We have to have wholesale change, culture change, when it comes to violence against women and girls. Any answer that starts ‘women must do this’, ‘women must do that’, starts with men and boys”.

The debate over the issue of gendered violence has been re-ignited in the UK by the deaths of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa. Burnham also endorsed the need for an independent inquiry into the Sarah Everard case.