The article argues that violence in the home, which is where most violence by men against women happens, is regarded as a women's issue whereas it is men who are responsible for it and for solving it.
It highlights The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, currently being debated in the House of Lords, which adds "a new duty for police forces, councils and other public bodies to take co-ordinated action to address violent crime. In the bill’s present form, that doesn’t include domestic violence. A cross-party group of peers led by Baroness Bertin, once an aide to David Cameron, is trying to change that by amending the bill.
The government’s objections, which I think ministers will be sensible enough to abandon, say something about those national priorities and how important we collectively consider domestic violence.
Ministers say they can’t accept the Bertin amendment not because they don’t think domestic violence is important but because they don’t want to tell officers and officials on the ground to treat it as important. The government argues that local violent crime plans should be made locally, not dictated from Whitehall."