Safeguarding minister says she wants to use momentum to invest in prevention and get more than quick-fix policies
Read Jess Phillips’ article: We owe it to every Epstein victim to better protect British women and girls
Institutions can be persuaded to take action on violence against women and girls only when some sort of “calamity” or “political scandal” hits the headlines, Jess Phillips has said.
Phillips, the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, said she wanted to use the momentum from the Epstein files to push for long-term legislative change and greater support for survivors, rather than quick-fix reactive policy announcements.
Writing for the Guardian, the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley said: “If repentance and sorrow is all we achieve out of the courage of the Epstein victims we will have failed, change is all that will suffice.
