The Government Delegation will host this Thursday, September 18, the second session of the formation ‘The General Administration of the State as Violet Point’, aimed at the staff of the AGE in Melilla. This programme aims to provide basic training on violence against women and information on how to deal with a case of male violence and on the resources of the State and the autonomous regions.
As recalled by the Head of the Coordination Unit against Gender Violence of the Government Delegation, Laura Segura, this training is part of the actions carried out after the signing of the protocol extending the Violet Point to various areas of the General State Administration (AGE).
Through the aforementioned protocol, the commitment was established to provide training to the personnel who are at the service of the citizens of the different departments, to have a reference person and to have visible the Violeta Point badges, which have a QR code with all the resources of the State and Autonomous Communities against gender violence and information on this matter.
“The objective of the Government Delegation is to create safe environments for victims of gender-based violence, either when making administrative arrangements, when going to claim the provision of a service and in any day-to-day activity,” he said.
In this regard, he stressed that through these protocols “we enforce the commitment of the Government of Spain, making public resources available to equality and the fight against gender violence as the most terrible manifestation of inequality between men and women”.
“The idea of this day is to raise awareness, raise awareness with data, with content, with theory, so that the issue is known in depth and to offer all possible arguments when working and extending the Violeta Point in the Administration and as its staff,” he said.
The first day of the program ‘The General Administration of the State as Punto Violeta’ took place on July 18. After the summer holidays, three more new training courses will be offered, aimed at the AGE staff in Melilla, on 19 September, and on 9 and 24 October.
Violet Dot Instrument
Segura recalled that the Violet Point is an instrument promoted by the Ministry of Equality to involve the whole of society in the fight against male violence and to spread, in a massive way, the information necessary to know how to act in a case of violence against women.
This tool is part of the catalogue of urgent measures of the Improvement and Modernization Plan promoted by different Ministries of the Government of Spain and represents a change of focus in public policies of care for victims, placing male violence as a structural problem that requires the involvement of the whole of society to put an end to it.