Falmouth and Penryn are set to benefit from a share of government funding to local projects through the Safer Streets Fund.

The government is allocating a further £25 million to local projects through Safer Streets.

Shared between the two towns, £33,649 of it will be going towards projects aimed at increasing the safety of public spaces for all with a particular focus on tackling violence against women and girls.

Created with theobjectiveof tackling localacquisitivecrimes like car theft and burglary, thelatest round of the Safer Streets Fund is focused on making public places safer for all, with an emphasis on the safety of women and girls.

Crimes that take place in public places such as sexual harassment disproportionately affect women, which is why this latest investment largely focuses on makingspaces safer for women and girls.

Recipients of funding have submitted bids for innovative plansto increase the safety of public spaces or projects which will focus on changing the behaviour of perpetrators.

Since its inception,the Government hascommitted £70million 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 projectsacross England and Wales awarded a total of £18.4 milliontogotowards measures proven to cut crime, including simple changes to the design of streets such as locked gates around alleyways, increased street-lighting, and the installation of CCTV.

Safer Streets is just one of the waysThe Government is working totackle violence against women and girls.

The new police lead,Deputy Chief ConstableMaggie Blyth,has set a new policing strategy for tackling violence against violence towards women and girls across England and Wales.

Truro and Falmouth's Member of Parliament 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."

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