Valerie’s Law was the subject of a parliamentary debate on 28 March 2022, with then Minister for Safeguarding, Rachel Maclean, committing to setting up a meeting between Sistah Space, the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council. “I will facilitate that meeting to take place as soon as diaries can be synchronised, but I hope it will be within a relatively short period,” she said at the time. As yet, no such meeting has taken place. Ngozi tells Refinery29: “About six months ago, we nudged them, and one of the MPs raised it again. They said they were going to get back to us but they didn’t. If that isn’t a clear response that says Black women’s lives don’t matter, I don’t know what is.”
