Measures to prevent violence welcomed.

(From The Journal)

CHILDREN North East welcomes the news that schools will teach children how to prevent violent relationships.

This is part of a Government strategy to prevent violence to women and girls and starts in 2011.

Measures to prevent domestic violence have been overlooked for too long. According to the British Crime Survey in 2008 there were 293,000 reported incidents of domestic violence in England and Wales. Three quarters of the victims were women and a third attacked repeatedly. In an average year, the Home Office says 106 people are killed by a current or former partner and 72 of them will be female. This means that every week one woman is …