Domestic Abuse as a Workplace Safety Issue (Protecting Public Sector Workers)
The Green Party of England & Wales will agitate for the UK Government to protect public sector workers (which shall include privatised public services & utilities and publicly funded entities) at risk of domestic abuse & intimate
partner violence by creating a ‘Domestic Violence Prevention & Protection Programme’ as a nationwide initiative, and instructing all public sector employers
to participate in order to ensure the safety of public sector workers
who are at risk of violence or abuse from family members and current or former partners in addition to the care for staff currently available from individual employers:
1. This would involve a designated staff member within the human resources department of each public sector employer or workplace who would function as a lead officer with specific responsibilities. They would also be part
of a network of designated staff members across organisations who would work collaboratively as and when the need arose. This staff member would at a minimum:
i. Have the authority to transfer staff between geographically distant workplaces & public sector employers without a competitive interview via internal or external redeployment into a similar post elsewhere if a staff
member needs to quickly relocate to another part of the country for their own or their children’s (or any other dependants) safety;
ii. Have the authority to waive the obligation to repay wage advances from an employer’s payroll team if they were requested to fund emergency relocation or other expenses associated with relocation if it would cause substantial
financial hardship to repay them;
iii. Where necessary arrange and pay for emergency accommodation from their employers’ funds until new safe and permanent accommodation can be found without expectation of reimbursement from an at-risk staff member;
iv. The costs associated with these obligations would be invoiceable to central government and a dedicated fund held by the Office for Equality and Opportunity will be maintained to reimburse them to employers. This fund should also be made accessible to private sector employers.
2. This would also include:
i. A requirement that public sector employers who due to the nature of their service hire security operatives will use those staff (where needed) to chaperone a worker in the process of fleeing an abusive home environment when retrieving their possessions from the home they are in the process of leaving;
ii. A mandatory requirement that all public sector employer’s recruitment policies specifically state that the guaranteed interview for applicants with disabilities who meet the essential criteria in a person specification for a job role includes any diagnosis related to psychological trauma or psychiatric injury associated with being a survivor of domestic or partner abuse or violence;
iii. A mandatory requirement that all public sector employer’s absence policies exclude counting periods of sickness due to injury caused by domestic or intimate partner violence towards a workplace disciplinary process or formal capability process which could lead to termination of employment;
iv. All public sector employers will be required to allow trade union representatives to use their paid facilities time to leave work in order to accompany union members who are domestic abuse victims in making out complaints to the police, attending court, or a meeting with the Citizens Advice Bureau or a solicitor as emotional support, which must be specifically stated in every public sector workplaces/employer’s facilities time agreement with recognised
trade unions;
v. Mandating that all public sector employers safeguarding training covers how to raise a concern that a colleague may be experiencing domestic or partner abuse or violence, and where an individual needing support can seek it;
vi. Routinely assessing the potential for domestic abuse when asking a staff member to work from home as part of the workplace risk assessment, even where there is no mention or suspicion of such a situation at home existing;
vii. Each public sector or publicly funded entity will be required to have a specific policy on how they will support staff who are victims of domestic abuse and/or partner violence.
3. The Green Party of England & Wales will communicate & liaise with other potential stakeholders such as public sector trade unions, the domestic violence commissioner and survivors’ charities to gain support for this initiative & seek help in lobbying government to put this into practice:
i. This will be done via the Green Party’s Campaigns Committee and Trade Union Liaison Committee which be mandated to implement this motion
Passed at autumn conference
Zionism is Racism
Zionism is a political ideology which called for the creation – and, now it exists, the continuity – of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic Palestine to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population. The real, material manifestation of Zionism has been the historic and ongoing dehumanisation, displacement, dispossession, disenfranchisement and destruction of Palestinians. This is based upon European settler-colonial systems of domination and oppression, which has also created racial hierarchies between Jews of different ethnicities in Palestine.
CONFERENCE RESOLVES THAT:
1. The Green Party declares itself to be an anti-Zionist party.
2. The Green Party rejects attempts to normalise the racist subjugation and oppression of Palestinians; to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism; to deny or minimise Palestinian human rights; to create hierarchies of racism; and to normalise or attempt to justify apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide. We affirm that definitions of anti-Jewish discrimination should not equate Jewish identity with Zionist ideology or political practice. As with any ethnicity or
faith group, no single political ideology should be ascribed to an entire people.
3. Following from Motion E05, which affirmed that Israel is an apartheid State committing genocide, and Motion E07 supporting reparations and accountability, the Green Party supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, equal rights for all, and the right of return for Palestinians and their descendants.
4. The Green Party affirms the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination, including the right of the Palestinian people to resistance and liberation from Israeli occupation, domination and subjugation, and acknowledges that the struggle to achieve that liberation by all available means under international law is legitimate.
5. The Green Party heeds the call from Palestinian civil society to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era, and calls upon the United Kingdom Government to impose full embargoes and sanctions against Israel.
6. The Green Party calls for the release of all Palestinian prisoners of conscience (including Marwan Barghouti), the end of the use of administrative detention of Palestinians by Israel, and the treatment of Palestinian combatants
in accordance with international humanitarian law, including in particular those provisions dealing with prisoners of war in the First Additional Protocol of the 1977 amendments to the Four Genevan Conventions of 1949 relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts.
7. The Green Party calls for the removal of Palestine Action from the list of proscribed organisations in Schedule 2 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (i.e. de-proscription).
8. The Green Party calls for the release of all prisoners detained for non-violent direct action in support of Palestinian rights and the end of the genocide, apartheid and the illegal occupation of Palestine and supports the
demands of the Prisoners for Palestine 4
ACTIONS FOR THE PARTY TO TAKE:
The Green Party adopts the following action points:
- This motion will be incorporated into the Green Party’s Record of Policy Statements as appropriate and promoted in accordance with our rules and procedures.
- Zionism, as defined above, will be treated as any other form of racism.
We affirm our commitment to explicitly opposing Zionism in our internal and external communications going forward.
The UK and Welsh Parliaments, the London and Mayoral Assemblies, and Local Councils and Local Authorities must exercise their authority to end the genocide, occupation and apartheid. Elected Green representatives will continue to put pressure on all and any relevant bodies to achieve these goals. This motion ensures our positions comply with international law, equity, and our commitment to justice and human rights.
MPs, London and Mayoral Assembly Members, Councillors, and prospective Members of the Senedd should take measures at their respective chambers to create local, sub-national, and national action for Palestine, ending any investments in Israel; demanding peace and accountability, and an end to the egregious violations of international humanitarian law and the genocide conventions, and an immediate move towards accountability, reparations, and justice for the Palestinian people.
In accordance with the international policy outlined in this motion – particularly the commitment to “a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, [with] equal rights for all“;
Passed at autumn conference
Support for the Basic Income for Farmers Campaign
The Green Party supports the ongoing Basic Income for Farmers campaign in recognition of the following:
That farming incomes are inherently precarious and insecure, and that, in the face of a changing climate and increasing extreme weather events, additional support will be required to maintain livelihoods.
That tenant farmers, market gardeners and landworkers are often poorly paid and that inequality is as much of an issue in the rural economy as it is in inner cities.
That insecurity and low income has led to a mental health crisis in farming at every level.
That a stable income would allow for farmers to make long term investments, including ones towards sustainability which are often both costly and reduce income while in transition.
That farming struggles to attract new entrants, particularly those without land.
The Green Party believes in the transformational benefits of a Universal Basic Income and that sector-specific trials and roll-outs are a step towards that goal.
On this basis, conference instructs Green MPs, Peers and the Leadership Team to:
Advocate for farm workers in discussions around agriculture support and subsidies, to ensure that farming is a viable career, irrelevant of land ownership.
Highlight food security as a key security issue in a changing climate and an uncertain world; and that retaining skilled farmers during extreme weather events and encouraging new ones through income support is a necessary element of achieving that.
Use their platforms to promote a Basic Income for Farmers as part of the solution to a more sustainable farming sector, for both farmers’ wellbeing and as a stable base for the major changes in the farming sector outlined in the Food & Agriculture and Land Use chapters of Policies for a Sustainable Society.
Passed at autumn conference
Solidarity with Sudan and its People: Expose. Disrupt. Dismantle, Support
The Green Party of England and Wales will act to Expose, Disrupt, Dismantle, and Support in response to the genocide in Sudan; and will confront UK and third-party state complicity, including through divestment and the severing of political, military, and economic ties with those enabling the violence.
Policy Statement
The Green Party recognises that urgent action is required in response to the genocide of Sudanese peoples. The UK Government’s failure to end its direct and indirect complicity – including through arms exports, re-export failures, and economic partnerships – has compounded the trauma of Sudanese communities forced to witness destruction in silence.
Accordingly, the Green Party resolves to:
Where the international community is failing, speak publicly, clearly, and consistently on the genocide in Sudan through party leadership, MPs, elected representatives, and official communications.
Formally recognise that violence inflicted on non-Arab communities in Sudan constitutes genocide; and that UK complicity, including via arms exports and third-party enablement, must end.
Suspend all UK arms exports, intelligence sharing, and military cooperation with states credibly implicated in enabling violence in Sudan, including the UAE, particularly where re-export or diversion to armed actors is alleged.
Support Sudan-specific boycott, divestment, and sanctions measures against individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and state-linked entities complicit in genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, including those operating through the UAE.
Introduce binding human rights, international humanitarian law, and environmental due-diligence legislation covering Sudan-linked supply chains, including conflict-linked gold, finance, and extractive industries.
Support national and international prosecutions of those responsible for international crimes in Sudan, including sanctions, asset freezes, and travel ban.
Call for an immediate, permanent, nationwide ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access.
Stand in active solidarity with Sudanese communities in the UK through sustained engagement with diaspora organisations, women-led groups, journalists, youth committees, and human rights defenders, and by ending the hostile environment for refugees and displaced people.
Commit the UK to supporting the rebuilding of Sudan’s civilian health system, recognising the leadership of Sudanese women and the bravery of medical workers.
If passed, the GPEW and its officers shall take immediate and coordinated action to implement this policy. British industrial and political complicity in the violence in Sudan must end. A fairer international and economic order must be rebuilt.
GPEW communications teams and Local Parties shall include this position within manifestos and campaigning in areas where Sudanese communities reside.
EXPOSE
The Green Party will expose atrocities in Sudan and UK complicity through visible, sustained political leadership.
This is an expectation, not an option.
Break the silence by ensuring Green MPs, peers, spokespeople, leaders, and candidates consistently use parliamentary, council, media, and party platforms to address Sudan.
Formally name genocide in Darfur and demand the UK Government do the same without euphemism or delay.
Treat refusal to name genocide or sustained silence as incompatible with Green leadership and representation.
Publicly expose British and international complicity in international crimes, including through arms sales, diversion, diplomatic shielding, and inaction.
DISRUPT
Disrupt Arms Flows and Diplomatic Protection
Oppose all UK arms exports, direct or indirect, that fuel the war in Sudan.
Publicly challenge arms sales, military cooperation, and intelligence sharing with the UAE while it remains credibly implicated in supplying or financing the RSF.
Demand immediate suspension of UK military cooperation with all states complicit in international humanitarian law violations in Sudan.
Close re-export, diversion, and end-user loopholes in UK arms licensing.
Make opposition visible through sustained parliamentary action, campaigning, and public pressure.
Disrupt Economic Support for Genocide
Support targeted, Sudan-specific boycott, divestment, and sanctions measures against individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and state actors complicit in genocide and mass atrocities in Sudan.
Oppose public and private investment that sustains Sudan’s war economy, including arms production, extractive industries, and conflict-linked supply chains.
Maintain such measures until violence ceases, humanitarian access is restored, and accountability mechanisms are operational.
Disrupt through demanding sanctions
Publicly demand sanctions on relevant direct actors that fund or participate in the genocidal acts and human rights violations in Sudan.
DISMANTLE
End Impunity and Structural Violence
Demand accountability for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity through:
International investigations
Full support for the International Criminal Court
Use of universal jurisdiction in UK courts
An independent inquiry into UK complicity in the Sudan genocide
Call for expansion and full enforcement of the Darfur arms embargo to cover all of Sudan.
Demand asset freezes and travel bans against RSF and SAF leaders, aligned militias, mercenaries, and corporate enablers.
Reject any political settlement or ceasefire framework that grants immunity, political rehabilitation, or de facto legitimacy to perpetrators without full accountability.
Dismantle the Economic and Environmental Architecture of War
Campaign for mandatory human rights, international humanitarian law, and environmental due-diligence legislation covering Sudan-linked supply chains.
Pursue divestment from companies and financial instruments demonstrably linked to the Sudanese war economy.
Hold actors accountable for conflict-driven ecological destruction.
Recognise and demand accountability for environmental devastation and ecocide as both weapons of war and enduring consequences of genocide.
Consistently campaign for action against agricultural damage, environmental damage, and control of food supplies as weapons of war, all of which have led to one of the worst famines in modern history in Sudan.
Proactive demand for consistent food aid and supported supply routes for this aid to prevent further famine.
SUPPORT
Stand with Sudanese Communities
Maintain sustained engagement with Sudanese diaspora organisations, women-led groups, journalists, youth committees, and human rights defenders.
Amplify Sudanese voices across Parliament, councils, party platforms, and media.
Advocate for expanded resettlement pathways, asylum access, and an end to the hostile environment propagated by previous governments, recognising displacement as a direct consequence of genocide.
Demonstrate clear and sustained solidarity and engagement with UK Sudanese families and individuals who have witnessed their homeland being brutally destroyed materially, environmentally, and demographically.
Publicly reject detention, deportation, offshore processing, and restricted asylum access for people displaced by war crimes and genocide.
Rebuild Healthcare
Demand accountability for attacks on hospitals, clinics, and medical workers, including the massacre at Saudi Maternity Hospital El Fasher in October 2025.
Support international mechanisms monitoring violations of medical neutrality.
Advocate for increased UK support to rebuild Sudan’s civilian health system.
Demand unrestricted humanitarian access across all regions, including protected corridors for civilians, food, medicine, fuel, and aid workers.
Call for expanded UK humanitarian funding, prioritising Sudanese-led and women-led initiatives, including Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs).
Passed at autumn conference
Water Justice and Catchment Restoration
Conference resolves:
1. To support a national programme of river and catchment restoration, prioritising the most polluted, flood-prone, water-stressed and ecologically damaged catchments, each with a publicly accessible Catchment Restoration Plan setting targets for water quality, biodiversity, pollution reduction, flood and drought resilience, and public reporting.
2. To support democratically accountable catchment governance, bringing together local authorities, regulators, publicly owned water companies, farmers, land managers, river trusts, community groups and the communities most affected.
3. To call on the UK Government to align water reform, planning reform, farming schemes, flood funding and the Environmental Improvement Plan around a statutory duty to restore river catchments.
4. To require publicly owned water companies to invest in sewage infrastructure, pollution prevention, wetland creation, sustainable drainage, natural flood management and ecological recovery across each catchment.
5. To provide fair, long-term funding for farmers and land managers to improve soil health, reduce chemical and nutrient runoff, restore riverbanks, hedgerows and wetlands, improve slurry management, and deliver natural flood management.
6. To strengthen planning rules so development proceeds only where water, sewage and drainage capacity is demonstrably sufficient, and does not worsen pollution, flood risk, water scarcity or habitat loss — covering sewage, agricultural and road runoff, pesticides, forever chemicals, microplastics, industrial pollution, sediment and unsustainable abstraction.
7. To require each Catchment Restoration Plan to include an environmental justice assessment, prioritising investment where ecological harm overlaps with deprivation, racial inequality, poor public health and flood vulnerability.
8. To strengthen monitoring, enforcement and transparency, including real-time pollution data, open catchment health dashboards, and proper funding for environmental regulators.
Nature, Biodiversity and National Security Act
The Green Party believes that the protection and restoration of nature is not only intrinsically important, but a fundamental national security priority.
The Green Party supports the campaign by Zero Hour for a Nature + National Security Bill and is committed to developing policies, with urgency, to keep or return within Planetary Boundaries (EC202) and protect biodiversity.
The Green Party recognises that ecological collapse is a systemic threat multiplier, driving food insecurity, economic instability, damage to critical infrastructure, increased vulnerability to flooding, drought and extreme weather, and wider social and geopolitical instability.
The Green Party considers that the UK’s approach to national security policy and spending should reflect the scale of the threat posed by the climate and nature crises, and that economic security, food security, water security and societal resilience depend upon healthy and functioning ecosystems.
The Green Party therefore calls for a Nature, Biodiversity and National Security Act which would:
- Recognise nature loss and biodiversity decline as national security threats requiring statutory risk assessment, resilience planning and coordinated cross-government action.
- Extend to England and Wales the statutory biodiversity duties established under the Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2026, creating a unified duty on all public bodies to protect and restore biodiversity.
- Ensure national security policy and spending (PSD319) support resilience, development and prevention, alongside defence and deterrence.
- Strengthen the attention in national security planning given to food security (EC951 CY400f), water security, energy security (EN001), ecosystem resilience and protection from flooding, drought, extreme heat and sea-level rise.
- Strengthen food security through sustainable domestic food production, public procurement, restoration of the natural systems on which agriculture depends, and reduced reliance on vulnerable global supply chains and fossil fuels.
- Enshrine the Rights of Nature in law (WH100) through the Nature’s Rights Act, providing ecosystems with legal protection and representation in decision-making.
- Legally halt and reverse biodiversity loss and give effect in domestic law to the UK’s international nature commitments. (WH003)
- Protect and restore critical ecosystems, including rivers, wetlands, peatlands, woodlands, coastal habitats and marine environments, by addressing the systemic causes of nature loss. (EC100)
- Recognise biodiversity and natural systems as critical national infrastructure essential to economic prosperity, public wellbeing and long-term national resilience.
- Strengthen the resilience of food, water, energy, health and environmental systems on which social, economic and democratic stability depends.
- Establish ecocide as a criminal offence in domestic law (WH130) and support international efforts to recognise ecocide as a crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
- Reform economic governance to recognise that long-term prosperity and national resilience depend upon maintaining healthy natural systems. (EC100)
- Return water services to public ownership as a core national security measure, enabling strategic investment to modernise infrastructure, reduce leakage and build resilience to drought and flooding. (NR428)
- Require all Government departments and public bodies to consider nature, biodiversity and ecological resilience in policy-making, spending decisions and strategic planning.
- Consolidate environmental governance, enforcement and accountability mechanisms to ensure effective implementation, policy coherence and delivery. (WH101)
A Nature, Biodiversity and National Security Act would establish a national mission to restore nature, strengthen resilience and build long-term security by protecting the living systems upon which our economy, food supply, infrastructure, health and wellbeing depend.
Passed at autumn conference
International Rail
The Green Party believes that we must provide alternatives to airport expansion, and that is best done through better international rail connections. We believe that must include better connections from other regions of England, and the nations of Wales and Scotland, to the continent, both during the day and overnight.
The Green Party believes we should look to allow passport checks on trains, rather than requiring them to be done before boarding (with agreement with our European neighbours) and seek to regain our stake in Eurostar, sold by the coalition government.
The Green Party would also upgrade rail infrastructure and where needed build new infrastructure to facilitate these connections, including the construction of a new international depot along HS1.
The Green Party would look to join a unified European train booking service, as pushed for by the European Green Party, allowing through tickets rather than requiring separate bookings for domestic and international leg.
The Green Party would work with public and private rail companies across Europe to increase the amount of destinations served directly from the UK.
Passed at autumn conference
Enabling Motion for an Anti-Fascist Policy Working Group
Conference instructs the Policy Development Committee to facilitate the creation an Anti-Fascist Policy Working Group.
This PWG will have a mandate to bring a new chapter of anti-fascist policies to future conferences.
Passed at autumn conference
Tackle rising food prices to protect consumers, farmers and the environment
The Green Party recognises that rising food prices are a major part of the cost of living crisis, while many farmers are squeezed simultaneously by the impacts of climate change including worsening extreme weather, rising costs of inputs including fertiliser, and market power exercised by major buyers.
The Green Party considers the current UK approach to fall short of building long-term food security and climate resilience. The Green Party supports urgent action to address food security, ensure access to healthy and affordable food and keep food prices under control in a way that protects consumers, farmers and the environment together, recognising our longstanding commitment to a resilient and sustainable food system.
The Green Party acknowledges international good practice including Mexico’s agreement with retailers and producers to cap the price of a basic basket of foods; Greece’s statutory price caps on essential items backed by a strengthened consumer protection authority; and France’s Egalim laws, which guarantee farmers a fair minimum price and stop retailers buying below the cost of sustainable production. We note also the successful use of strategic reserves of essential foods across the world.
The Green Party seeks a resilient food system which includes decentralised production and distribution of staples and fresh produce; facilitates access to affordable, healthy food; and protects producers and consumers from economic and climate shocks.
The Green Party therefore calls for the following interventions to tackle the rising cost of food:
- A UK Fair Food Prices framework that would establish policy for the whole system;
- Fair minimum farmgate prices.
- Empower the Groceries Code Adjudicator to protect consumers and fine large grocery retailers for excessive or opaque pricing.
- The option of temporary price caps on essential goods during periods of acute cost of living pressures.
- The development of a UK strategic food reserve, essential to help secure supplies and moderate prices during shocks should be prioritised.
These immediate measures should go hand in hand with greater investment in local, agroecological food production, so that fair prices for farmers and affordable food for consumers are treated as complementary goals, not competing ones, and to developing the UK’s food resilience in conditions of worsening global insecurity.
Passed at autumn conference
Rebuilding the fire and rescue service
We support the FBU and its members’ struggles against cuts, its campaigning around firefighters’ and fire and rescue workers’ pay and conditions, and its call for a National Wildfire summit. More broadly, we endorse its demands to rebuild and transform the fire and rescue service, including:
- An end to all cuts;
- Significantly increased central government funding, with a plan to reverse real-terms funding cuts and from there increase to meet real needs;
- Steady reversal of cuts to firefighter numbers, to return to the 2010 level and beyond – starting with 5,000 more firefighters urgently;
- A new statutory national body to oversee standards and best practice in the fire service, with strong representation and voice for the FBU at every level;
- Strong national standards including minimum crewing of five on fire engines;
- Action reversing deregulation and privatisation and allowing enforcement of strong standards in fire and building safety;
- A statutory duty on fire and rescue services to respond to major flooding and other extreme weather, and corresponding funding;
- Fully funded pay rises to reverse the real-terms cuts firefighters and fire and rescue workers have suffered and increase pay;
- Reversal of the repeated attacks on firefighters’ pensions.
With this in mind, we call on:
GPEx and party elected representatives to advocate and campaign strongly on these issues, encouraging and facilitating local parties and members to take them up;
GPEx and elected representatives to offer support to and seek to build campaigning alliances with the FBU and firefighters / fire and rescue workers;
Local parties and members to offer support and seek to build alliances locally.
GPTU to strengthen its connections with firefighters and fire and rescue workers and facilitate the work of the party.
All relevant Policy Working Groups to look to develop policy on these issues.
Passed at autumn conference
Standing up for patients and good science in healthcare for trans+ youth
The Green Party condemns recent trends in healthcare for trans and gender diverse children and young people, including the decommissioning of puberty blockers by NHS England for this purpose, the subsequent restrictions on prescribing and dispensing of puberty blockers across the private sector, and the move towards pathologising the trans+ experience.
The Green Party believes that recent academic and policy developments in healthcare for trans and gender diverse children and young people have been unduly influenced by ideological actors opposed to trans rights in general. This includes the Cass review and the Appleby report, and subsequent selective reporting of the conclusions. The Green Party recognises the voices of those from the trans+ community, and the scientific and clinical communities that have spoken out on this topic.
The Green Party calls for an immediate reversal of the recent legal restrictions on puberty blockers, and for the recommissioning of puberty blockers by NHS England for this patient group, in line with policy RR 538. Furthermore, the Green Party in Wales will work with Plaid Cymru to enable them to action their 2026 Senedd manifesto commitment to support the development of the Welsh Gender Service to allow young people to access appropriate and timely care in Wales.
The Green Party calls for an unbiased independent review in the structure and evidence-based practice of gender-affirming healthcare for children and young people. This should be led by
1. Current and former patients of NHS and private services, including those on waiting lists or who may wish to be referred for healthcare in the future, supported by appropriate adults when needed.
2. Clinicians with expertise in providing gender-affirming healthcare to children and young people. Since NHS expertise was largely concentrated in the Tavistock clinic, concerns about bias in an NHS services evaluation can be addressed by recruiting experts from the private sector or from overseas.
The Green Party believes that our current policy on healthcare for trans and gender diverse children and young people is closely aligned with the best scientific evidence, WPATH standards of care, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Passed at autumn conference
Gender Inclusive Campaign Against Domestic and Sexual Abuse
The GPEW recognises that standing against domestic and sexual abuse and the systems that enable it means standing with all victims regardless of gender, sex, or sexual/romantic orientation.
The GPEW recognises the role sexist and patriarchal attitudes play in these crimes and how they harm victims of all genders in various ways, as well as enabling perpetrators of all genders in different ways.
The GPEW commits to tackling the epidemic of domestic and sexual abuse and standing in solidarity with all victims of these crimes. This includes addressing the systemic failing of victims and enabling of perpetrators, advocating for better support services and gender nuetral consent and healthy relationship education – fostering a society of consent and respect for one another regardless of gender, sex, or orientation.
The GPEW will convey the above in our national manifesto and relevant future communications in ways that are inclusive of all victims. This includes, but is not limited to, showing solidarity during inclusive awareness times such as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week and Domestic Abuse Awareness Month, alongside demographic-specific awareness times such as International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Supporting Male Victims of Domestic Abuse Day and LGBTQ Domestic Violence Awareness Day.
The GPEW is to adopt the ‘Online Safe Spaces’ widget (provided by the UK Says No More campaign) for implementation across all Green Party national and local public-facing websites. This tool is free to deploy and is currently utilised by public bodies such as Network Rail.
Passed at autumn conference
Enabling Motion: Continuing the Crime and Justice Voting Paper
Conference notes that at Autumn Conference 2024, an enabling motion was passed instructing Policy Development Committee (PDC) to ‘initiate a policy development process to re-write and update’ the existing Crime and Justice section of the Policies for a Sustainable Society (PfSS) document, to be undertaken by a Crime and Justice Policy Working Group (PWG).
Conference notes that, notwithstanding the presentation of numerous Draft Voting Papers to intervening Conferences, this work is ongoing as of Autumn Conference 2026.
Conference therefore instructs PDC to oversee the continuation of this process by the Crime and Justice PWG.
Passed at autumn conference
Enabling motion on drug policy: replace drug-specific text with a standard regulatory mode
Earlier this year motion E26, fast tracked and passed at Spring Conference, enabled the Drug Policy Working Group (DPWG) to bring four drug-specific sections of the drugs policy chapter up to date: Cocaine, Ketamine, Nitrous Oxide and Tobacco.
Having recently reviewed this process the PWG recommends a different course of action. The rationale for this is two fold.
- Considerable work is required to ensure that the current model, with different regulatory processes presented differently for fourteen different drugs, remains appropriate and up to date. Since current policy was written, several new products have entered the illicit market and are unaccounted for within our policy for this reason.
- In addition this approach provides a limited amount of information around the approach for each drug, potentially raising questions and requiring detailed knowledge to defend, especially on the door step and during high profile and hostile campaigns.
We propose to review this section of the policy, to present a standard regulatory model alongside a clear, evidence based approach of how we would assess risk and adjust the standard model accordingly.
This approach would allow us to:
- retain our focus on social justice and minimising corporate capture;
- ensure that the policy has longevity in a fast moving complex environment;
- describe in a language which is easy to understand what the mechanisms for regulation could be and what processes we would use to implement them;
- have the capacity to focus on the intersections with the health policy including alcohol and tobacco.
Conference resolves that the Policy Development Committee instruct the Drug Policy Working Group to coordinate efforts leading to this change, bringing a draft voting paper to Conference no later than Autumn 2028.
Passed at autumn conference
Enabling Motion: Terrorism policy review
This enabling motion instructs the Policy Development Committee to initiate a formal policy development process for the counter-terror policy working group to undertake work on terrorism related policies within the peace, security and defence chapter, and taking into consideration any relevant policy chapters, for example crime and justice, international, rights and responsibilities. The counter-terror policy working group will work with other policy working groups. The group will follow the policy development process according to our SOCC.
The working group will be looking at addressing physical, mental and on-line aspects, and also government sponsored forms of terrorism. The working group will explore the language and fundamental necessity of legislation on terror from first principles. The working group will draw on research and information from relevant international and national organisations as well as from Green thinking around the world. The working group will engage with external experts, academics, and organisations and will reference their input in the Background Paper submitted to Conference.
Passed at autumn conference
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