Funding specialist support for domestic abuse survivors Funding life-saving specialist domestic abuse support services, will cost £393 million per year. This investment would be a fraction of the estimated £66…
Fragile funding landscape The extent of local authority commissioning in the domestic abuse refuge sector in England 2020 Our latest report, ‘Fragile funding landscape: the extent of local authority commissioning…
…of funding for specialist women’s refuges. This work was taken forward in light of a funding crisis that refuges have been tackling over the past few years. The hybrid model…
…as outreach, floating support or advocacy) without funding, 37% ran prevention/educational work without funding, 34% ran refuge accommodation without funding and 31% ran therapeutic support services without funding. For services…
…funding and funding uncertainty as their biggest challenge in 2017–18. (Women’s Aid Annual Survey 2018) Over half (56.7%) of respondents were running an area of work without any dedicated funding…
…funding during 2016/17 20.3% of organisations (24 organisations) received 25% or less of their funding from the local authority Download The Domestic Abuse Report 2017 (PDF) Download The Domestic Abuse…
…in dedicated funding (49.2% of respondents running refuge services had received funding as a result of the statutory duty), however, there were also significant concerns around the commercialisation of commissioning…
…by a new model of funding and commissioning and that funding for specialist women-only refuges is sustained so that survivors receive the support they need to recover and regain independence….
Investing to save: the economic case for funding specialist domestic abuse support This report presents research by Women’s Aid and economic analysis by ResPublica. Women’s Aid finds that the economic…
…comes to responding to the needs of the most vulnerable survivors of domestic abuse. While chronic underfunding is increasing pressure on already overstretched refuge providers, leading to a crisis in…
