 Y Prind brows d remove thank you for joining me. I want to update you about our ambitious violence against women domestic abuse and sexual violence strategy, which is published today. I also want to say a few words about the cost of living crisis, which is effecting people across Wales. People are struggling to pay the bills and put food on the table. They're worrying about soaring energy bills and how to make it their next payday. Last week inflation rose to 9% putting even more pressure on pay packets and petrol prices are increasing yet again and supermarket bosses have warned that the era of cheap food is over. At my last press conference I set out a £380m package of support to help households across Wales and we will continue to do all we can to help people in Wales but we need the UK government to act now. It has the power to introduce a windfall tax on energy companies which would save families hundreds of pounds on their bills. It could increase benefits and reinstate the £20 a week universal credit uplift. UK government ministers tell people to work longer hours to learn to cook, to buy cheap food or move to find a better paying job. Instead of action we get insults and with every day of delay people are hurting. I turn now to something which has been the focus of so much work for this and previous Welsh governments, the violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence strategy. Today we are publishing our latest strategy. We need to have an open and honest discussion about violence against women, what each and every one of us can do to help end it. To ensure women can live fear free. We are publishing this later strategy after sadly witnessing more tragic and horrific murders of women. The murders of Server Erirrad and Sabina Nasser at the hands of strangers sent shockwaves through the UK and galvanised a collective effort for us all to face the problem of male violence against women. But these are not isolated incidents. They are the extreme end of a pattern of behaviour that has conditioned women's lives for far too long. That's why we've committed to making Wales the safest place for women to live fear free. We want to end violence against women and girls, domestic abuse and sexual violence in Wales. And tackling male violence and misogyny and gender inequality that lie behind it are how we will break the cycle and address the root causes of violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence. We must challenge attitudes and change behaviours of those who behave abusively. It's not for women to modify their behaviour. It's for abusers to change theirs. Some may say this ambition cannot be realised but we must be ambitious. Violence against women is not inevitable. The attitudes and beliefs, the offensive jokey comments, the uncomfortable situations women all too often have to put up with. All this must be challenged as these are what perpetuate, excuse and legitimise abuse and violence against women and girls. The Femicide Sensor shows that 110 women were killed by men in 2020, 52% of whom were killed by current or former partners. 70% took place in the home. For some people this will be uncomfortable because it challenges what has been seen as normal for too long. And our plan brings together all parts of Welsh society working together to challenge and change the norms, behaviours and cultures which affect men as well as women. And this is what lies at the root of achieving our ambitions. Today I'm setting out six aims for us all. Firstly to challenge attitudes to violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence by raising awareness of its impact and consequences. To increase awareness of the importance of safe, equal and healthy relationships. To hold those who commit abuse to account and help people who carry out abusive or violent behaviour to change. Prioritise early intervention and prevention. Provide training to professionals so they are equipped to give effective, timely and appropriate support to victims and survivors. Provide all victims with equal access to properly resourced, high quality support services wherever they live in Wales. And to achieve this we've created a new ministerially led national parts ship board co-chaired by myself and the lead police and crime commissioner David Llewellyn and it met for the first time yesterday. The board will make sure we deliver our promises. We will launch a campaign to tackle street harassment. We will develop a common approach for police and other agencies to ensure current legislation is used effectively to crack down on street harassment. We will develop training to promote healthy relationships. But for us all to truly achieve the ambition set out in this strategy we need an all Wales approach. We need to work together to make our vision of a safer Wales for women a reality. Finally I want to share with you a true example of working together to achieve ambition. This morning the council general and I set out our views on the potential core components of a devolved justice system. Our Delivering Justice for Wales report highlights the increasing development of a distinct Welsh justice policy based on prevention through tackling social challenges and rehabilitation instead of a more punitive approach. This complements the existing work we're doing with partners under the current system including the women's justice blueprint and youth justice blueprint. These will summarise the exciting and transformative work we're delivering with our partners to create a fairer and more rehabilitative justice system for women, children and young people in Wales. On Friday last week together with the UK government we announced the purchase of the site of the first residential women's centre in Wales. This is an example of co-operative and joint working to deliver vital important services for women which will improve the lives of women in Wales. It will provide women involved with the criminal justice system with the support and services they need to live healthier crime free lives while keeping them closer to their own communities allowing them to maintain crucial family ties especially with their children. The residential women's centre will help tackle the causes of low-level offending behaviour, reduce re-offending and ultimately help keep the public safe. So we can be proud of this collaborative approach. It shows what we can achieve when we work together to provide the services people need to change their futures. Ending violence against women will not be easy, but if we take a Team Wales approach we can and will succeed. Diolch yn fawr. Thank you very much. I'll now turn to Ruth Muselski, Wales Online. That's new minister. Can you give us an update please on Ukrainian refugees and how many have now arrived in Wales through the super sponsor scheme that the Welsh government has been promoting? Well we have a super sponsor scheme as part of the Homes for Ukraine, it's the UK government scheme. We have many more applications than we have actual arrivals. We have actually many who have now been awarded their visas but are waiting to arrive in Wales. I will say that we've got our five welcome centres that are now fully operational and of course our super sponsor scheme gives them a route our Ukrainian refugees into our welcome centres. It means that they have got all of the welcome that is already being provided to our welcome centres and we continue to encourage people to look at the super sponsor route as a way of ensuring that they're safeguarded, they're supported. And then once of course they come to Wales, nation of sanctuary, then we can help them move and integrate and settle and take their place as they will do in contributing in Wales and in our society. And of course children going to school and support for English language classes but so many are coming are actually also really skilled and ready to work support and support their families and play a part in the community. Have we got any exact numbers on that or if we can get them afterwards if they're not available? And then my second question is about under the previous scheme for Afghan refugees, can you tell us how many of those are still waiting for permanent homes, people who came to hotels and welcome centres and such things? Well we certainly know that we had 700 Afghan refugees coming in the evacuation from last August but very much the same sort of approach we had our welcome centres as you know and many of them now have moved to all parts of Wales. There are still some who are waiting in the short stay before accommodation before they move on. Of course this is something which you know like what we're doing with the homes of Ukraine, our super sponsor scheme, ultimately all local authorities in Wales are playing their part. It's not just the dispersal areas in the south Wales and north Wales, it's all local authorities playing their part not just as they did with the Syrian refugee displacement scheme but also with the Afghan refugees as well. So this is our responsibility as a nation of sanctuary and all local authorities playing their part again back to team Wales and we will share of course the very latest, I think the very latest statistics in terms of those arriving through super sponsor and homes through Ukraine are publicly available on our website and of course we get that update now from the UK Government on a local authority, local authority by local authority basis and they're updated every Thursday. Thank you very much Ruth. Can I go to Felicity Evans BBC Wales? Hello Minister, thank you. We've seen successive strategies from various Welsh Labour governments over the course of devolution to try to tackle the problem of violence against women, many of them using very similar language to the language you've just been using about this new strategy. What is it about this one that will make the difference that others haven't? Well thank you very much. It's a really important question Felicity because we're absolutely determined that this next phase, I mean it's five years on from our pioneering, groundbreaking legislation of violence against women domestic abuse and sexual violence act. We had a duty then to produce a national strategy five years on. This is our refreshed and extended strategy. We've called it a blueprint strategy. This actually means that we're doing things differently to hold everyone to account who's got responsibility and crucially for that that involves policing. So that's why we're bringing together in an implementation board both the policing in Wales and also obviously Welsh Government and all our partners who played their part to deliver. So it's a blueprint strategy to hold everyone to account to deliver change. But of course there's been much good work already been done. The money, the support we give to our specialist services, our women's aid groups, BAALSO, all of them, again eight million actually in the budget for next year. Those specialist services, our national advisers, our 24-7 lift for free helpline and crucially the training that we do in terms of don't be a bystander and ask an act for reaching out to 245,000 people. Some of it is ongoing but it is so embedded and one of the key things I think Felicity is that we're looking at those issues that we need to address such as education and awareness. That's going to come through our new curriculum particularly with the new strand on healthy relationships which I think will be crucial. It's got to be early intervention, a public health approach as well but I think we've been quite tough in this statement today. This is actually by ending violence, a male violence against women. Men can play their part. I've got my white ribbon badge on today and we have men in our senate like Jack Sarge and always leading speaking up but it actually has to end. We look to now extending of course not just from the home but to street harassment and workplace harassment. I could go on Felicity because there are so many aspects of this new strategy. Thank you. Thank you for that minister and on a different topic, do you believe that Welsh schools are safe places for black children? Well, I mean I'm so shocked by what has happened to Raheem Bailey. So shocked and as Jeremy Miles, our Minister for Education has said in a statement he made yesterday. I mean this is where we have to condemn bullying and racial harassment in any form and it has to be, it has to start in education doesn't it? It has to start in our schools. And I think Jeremy said this morning, tackling racism and bullying head on in our schools and taking a very robust approach. So this is where in two weeks time I will be launching our anti-racist action plan and we need that action plan because that action plan is what is now going to help address this matter. Every school in Wales should be a safe place for all our children and we must now think of the family, think of Raheem and his family. Look at again the bullying in schools, the guidance which of course the education minister is looking at. Obviously learn what happened, that's crucial in terms of the local authority in Gwent Police finding out what happened, supporting the family. But actually we do not want to be anywhere in the place where we see these kinds of incidents happening. Thank you Felocity. Can I move on now to Gwynann Campbell ITV Wales? Good afternoon. The MeToo movement was back in 2017. Why is it taking us five years to get to this point and why isn't this strategy already in place? Well of course Gwynann, we have had a strategy in place over the last five years. It was part of the quite clear legislative basis of our violence against women domestic abuse and sexual violence act that we had to have a national strategy. It had to be a national strategy that all public bodies would subscribe to that we would be supporting specialist services and we have had five years as I've said of working, providing those specialist services early intervention. I've just come from a meeting which was particularly looking at the situation facing migrant women coming all over the world who face domestic abuse and sexual violence. Professor from Birmingham was saying you've got everything in place in Wales because you want to make Wales the safest place for women and you want this to be a strategy that actually is going to make a real difference. So learning the lessons from what we've done, building on it, engaging all partners but specifically with this next stage, not only are we involving the police much more clearly, those non-devolved bodies, we're not responsible for policing although we'd like to be, but we're working with policing to make sure that we can deliver on this. But also we're extending our strategy from not just domestic violence, violence in the home and I've given the statistics about sadly the endemic violence still we see in the home, but also to that wider culture of violence in the street, the workplace as a result of the horrific murders that we saw last week, last year. So we are now moving on to the next stage if you like of this strategy and we have got everything in place to make this strategy which will deliver that kind of change. Thank you, Gwen Ann. Thank you. Just another question then. Can I also get your reaction to the latest party gate photos please? What should happen next to the Prime Minister's line? Well, I think, you know, when we saw the pictures of him with his glass of wine last night, people will just reacted with disbelief. How is he getting away with this? And I think, you know, clearly we are weak, there are calls on the metropolitan police, you know, why hasn't he had a fine when we hear others, a party that he denied was happening? You know, we went and saw that as well. So it's again, we go through this circus about party gate, what's a party, isn't a party, but actually what are the issues today that people are facing? They're facing a horrendous cost of living crisis. He's getting away with that and what we have to focus on is protecting the people who are suffering from the cost of living crisis, which we as a Welsh government are putting at the absolute forefront, you know, only last week holding a round table about tackling food poverty, meeting with energy providers later in this week. So, clearly, the Prime Minister's got to consider his position. Thank you very much. Can I move on to Harry Hansen, that's TV. Thank you. Good afternoon, Minister. I was wondering if you could update me on the 10 million pound residential women's centre, which is set to open in Swansea in 2024, of course, designed to lower the number of local female offenders being sent to prison. How does this fit into the strategy that you've spoken about today? Well, it's very key to the strategy. This just shows how we need to work to tackle violence against women and domestic abuse by looking at all of the partners, and that's the Ministry of Justice we've been working with in terms of the UK Government and this new residential women's centre, looking at the role of the police. But looking at, this is particularly looking to support women who find themselves caught up in the women's residence in criminal justice. So, we have female offending blueprint, which is, again, is about how we can help women in terms of supporting them so that they can live healthier, crime free lives and not have to go to prison. I mean, I've been horrified when I've visited women in prison outside of Wales, and we don't want a women's prison in Wales ever. We want this kind of women's residential centre, which is actually a pilot as an alternative to prison, and it's going to help tackle the causes of low level offending that women may be caught up with. But can I just make the point about connecting it with the situation that you raise is that a large percentage of the women who end up in the criminal justice system actually have experienced domestic violence over 50%, and also many women have also experienced sexual harassment. So, those factors are crucial, and they make the connection with our new strategy. But also, I'm delighted that we are piloting this in Wales, and this is a real breakthrough, and it can really show how we can support women who get caught up in the criminal justice system in this way. Thank you, Minister. You mentioned that ending violence against women and girls rests with all sectors of society, so I wanted to ask you about schools. Do you think that a big part of ending this does lie with schools, and would the government be willing to offer more support to schools to kind of up the education on violence against women and girls? Well, that's a really helpful question because that's a key part of our new strategy. It's actually educating everyone. It's not just children. It's educating the whole of society. We need cultural change. This is about society, acknowledging what is a civilised society. It's not one where women have to face fear either home in the street or workplace. But schools are crucial, and I do believe in terms of our new curriculum and the ways in which you can intervene early into children's lives and family's lives. We can help to address this. There's a strand of the curriculum which is about healthy relationships. That's what we need to imbue into our children, that concept, that understanding of what healthy and fair and equal relationships mean. Thank you very much. Thank you.