Tackling Stalking Digital Conference 2026

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Tuesday 31st March 2026 09:30 – 13:15, Online

Around one in seven people aged 16 years and over in England and Wales has been a victim of stalking.*

Join Westminster Insight’s Tackling Stalking Digital Conference to improve your organisation’s approach to stalking, supporting victims, and managing perpetrators.

To be completed by March 2026, Richard Wright KC will lead an independent review to examine whether current laws are strong enough to protect victims and ensure perpetrators are punished. It will also look at how stalking and harassment laws work together – and whether the system needs to be clearer and more joined-up to tackle this serious crime. Last year, the Government unveiled 6 new measures to tackle stalking, including legislating in the Crime and Policing Bill to issue new ‘Right to Know’ statutory guidance and expand the use of Stalking Protection Orders (SPOs). We will provide relevant policy and legislative updates, including the Government’s Freedom from Violence and Abuse Strategy, and next steps following the stalking super complaint.

Further measures include defining stalking, and independent stalking advisors statutory guidance and new multi-agency statutory guidance, expected to set out a framework to help the police, education and health services work together and share intelligence on cases. We will hear from commissioned services on what’s working with stalking perpetrator programmes and what works for multi-agency partnership models. National standards on stalking perpetrator programmes will also be published to ensure that interventions properly address an offender’s behaviour in a consistent way across England and Wales.

We will showcase successful collaboration, including hearing from PCC Joy Allen from County Durham and Darlington. Sessions will explore how technological advancements are impacting upon stalking behaviour and anti-stalking strategies, including the rise of cyber stalking, and the innovative use of AI to identify stalking cases from Cheshire Constabulary.

Bringing together frontline practitioners, leaders, experts, and those with lived experience, don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear fresh ideas and best practice from across England and Wales. Take the next steps to prevent stalking behaviour, improve reporting experiences, support victims, and manage perpetrators in your communities.

*ONS, 2024

Key Points

• Understanding and identifying stalking – legal definitions, prevalence, tactics, and patterns of behaviour
• Examining reforms such as Stalking Protection Orders (SPOs), ‘Right to Know’ powers and multi-agency statutory guidance
• An update on Richard Wright KC’s review of stalking laws following the super complaint
• Cyberstalking, online harassment, and technology facilitated abuse – how to respond to cases and empower survivors
• The psychology of stalking and the implications for public sector interventions
• Strengthening multi-agency collaboration – hear the latest, innovative, cross-sector practice in responding to reports, supporting victims, and managing perpetrators
• The role of AI in detection and investigation of stalking behaviour
• Perpetrator intervention programmes and tailored interventions to prevent reoffending
• Gain an insight into the real-life impact of stalking from survivors and advocates

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