{"id":52691,"date":"2015-01-20T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=715681ca5433837308b4b1095a9689bd"},"modified":"2015-01-20T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:12:00","slug":"news-story-transport-minister-vows-to-improve-safety-for-women-on-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=52691","title":{"rendered":"News story: Transport Minister vows to improve safety for women on transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Transport Minister Claire Perry today (20 January 2015) showed her commitment to increase safety for women on public transport at a ground-breaking event bringing together more than 60 delegates from women\u2019s charities, campaigning groups and grassroots organisations. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Women\u2019s Safety on Transport seminar, Claire Perry said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Investment in transport is at the heart of the government\u2019s long-term economic plan, and that includes making it safe for everyone to use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am determined to do everything I can to make transport safer for women. That\u2019s why my department, along with British Transport Police (<abbr title=\"British Transport Police\">BTP<\/abbr>), has funded a research project to find out what measures work on the ground, both here in the UK and internationally. I also know there is more we can do, which is why I want to hear directly from the many groups represented at today\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The research by Middlesex University and commissioned by the Department for Transport and <abbr title=\"British Transport Police\">BTP<\/abbr> is looking at the effectiveness of common approaches like <abbr title=\"closed circuit television\">CCTV<\/abbr>, increased police presence, lighting, and panic buttons and phones in reducing unwanted sexual behaviours on public transport. <\/p>\n<p>The findings will be launched in a seminar later in the spring to transport organisations, women\u2019s groups, policy makers, researchers and police officers. <\/p>\n<p>The Department for Transport makes personal safety considerations a part of all future rail franchise awards, and is working closely with <abbr title=\"British Transport Police\">BTP<\/abbr> and rail operators to explore different partnership approaches to tackle violence and sexual offences across the network. <\/p>\n<p>Claire Perry praised the progress made by Project Guardian, a partnership between Transport for London, <abbr title=\"British Transport Police\">BTP<\/abbr>, the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police that aims to increase the reporting rate of sexual offences on London\u2019s transport systems by 20%.<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Safety on Transport seminar is part of the women\u2019s engagement programme run by the Government Equalities Office. The programme aims to bring women from all parts of the community to share views and debate on a wide range of issues, from violence against women and girls to gender pay gap. <\/p>\n<p>The UK is a signatory of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action that was signed 20 years ago and which committed the government to a programme of action to end gender inequality. <\/p>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1016\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Local transport media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3118\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Public enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Perry showed her commitment to increase safety for women on public transport at a seminar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52697,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691\/revisions\/52697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}