Projects to make streets safer in Cornwall to get share of £25m after Sarah Everard's death
They will receive over £33,500, with a focus on tackling violence against women and girls
Cornwall is going to be getting a share of £25 million to help make our streets safer.
£33,649 is being pumped into projects in Falmouth and Penryn, with a special focus on tackling violence against women and girls.
The latest round of the government's Safer Streets Fund has been created with the objective of making public spaces safer for everyone.
However ministers say crimes which take place in public places, like sexual harassment, disproportionately affect women, which is why this latest investment largely focus on making spaces safer for women and girls.
The nationwide funding boost has been announced after the deaths of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa.
Those receiving funding have submitted bids for plans to increase the safety of public spaces or projects which will focus on changing the behaviour of perpetrators.
Since its inception, the government has committed £70 million to the Safer Streets Fund to support local areas across England and Wales to introduce initiatives aimed at stopping offences happening in the first place.
Round two saw 50 projects across England and Wales awarded a total of £18.4m to go towards measures proven to cut crime, including simple changes to the design of streets such as locked gates around alleyways, more street-lighting and installing CCTV.
The Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy was published in August, which commits to radically changing how the government stops violence and abuse using a whole system approach.
The strategy was informed by the over 180,000 people who shared their experiences of harassment abuse and violence online.
The Safer Streets Fund has also funded a new police lead to set the policing strategy for tackling violence against violence towards women and girls across England and Wales.
MP for Truro and Falmouth, Cherilyn Mackrory, said: "Any incident of violence towards women and girls is one too many and I worked closely with the Government earlier this year to get the message out around the development of the Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, which has now been published, and gives us a sound plan to work on in this area.
"I welcome this additional funding for Penryn and Falmouth and look forward to seeing it be used to make our streets safer for all, while continuing to work with all parties, national and locally, to ensure we do everything we can to eradicate the sadly too-prevalent violent crimes against women and girls that blight our society".
Home Secretary Priti Patel said: "We have made good progress in tackling violence against women and girls, but these crimes are still all too prevalent in our society.
"That is why earlier this year we launched the Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, informed by the largest ever public survey of women and girls on this issue.
"As part of this, the £25million Safer Streets Fund will invest in crime prevention initiatives across the country where women and girls say they feel most unsafe.
"The tragic cases of Sarah Everard, Sabina Nessa, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman touched us all.
"As we Build Back Safer from the pandemic, tackling violence against women and girls is my priority".