The second in RIVA’s annual Civil Service World series tracking system realities against government’s ambition to halve violence against women and girls.

Examining the structural conditions limiting long-term reform across the VAWG system, including fragmentation, weak infrastructure, and limited capacity for continuous improvement.

Exploring how social investment could strengthen prevention, safe accommodation, and long-term system capacity across the VAWG sector.

Exploring how risk became the organising logic of the domestic abuse system, and the case for a more proportionate model centred on survivor capacity and long-term safety.

Evidencing how the Contextualised Engagement Model (CEM) can improve outcomes and reduce system demand in some of the highest harm domestic abuse cases.

RIVA’s first annual Civil Service World article, arguing that halving violence against women and girls will require a radical rethink of the current system, including a much stronger focus on perpetrators, prevention, and long-term system reform