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Marian Knight highlighted the importance of focusing on vulnerable groups, explaining that the majority of women who die have experienced complex adversities:
They have had adverse childhood experiences or they are victims of domestic abuse.
He identified the fact that, as a society, we seem to generate far more outrage and concern when there are deaths on the railways than we do when there are deaths on our roads. More than 3,000 people die on the roads in the UK each year.
That is something that the EOC would commend, as a lot of work has gone into it.We accept the fact that the standard is not transferable in its entirety to the Scottish situation.