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Much of the focus on violence against women has been on domestic abuse. We have some of the best legislation in the world on that, but we need to go further.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, who was a policy aide to Hillary Clinton, said: “The best hope for improving the lot of all women ... is to close the leadership gap ...
In COSLA, we are having a lot of conversations about the best practice in local authorities and whether that practice is happening in a policy framework or culturally.
The UK Government is running a number of smart metering pilots, and it would be best to await the outcome of those pilots before we decide the best way of taking the matter forward.