Flexible Fund: Frequently asked questions
…us secure further insight into survivors’ needs and to support the Home Office on potential future funding. I am concerned about the demographic reach of the fund. What steps have/are…
…us secure further insight into survivors’ needs and to support the Home Office on potential future funding. I am concerned about the demographic reach of the fund. What steps have/are…
…and girls (VAWG) or domestic abuse in the Chancellor’s speech, and a failure to commit to new funding on tackling VAWG, we are concerned about the ability of government to…
…funding, life-saving services that support women and children will be unable to meet demands. Within departmental allocations, we have continued to call for a minimum funding settlement of £516 million…
…funding is not only inadequate and short-term, but it also too often fails to go where it’s needed – sadly, due to poor local commissioning practices, funding can be awarded…
…rising cost-of-living, alongside shortages in funding, present to domestic abuse services across England. The report is especially significant, during ongoing financial precarity of local government and an increase in the…
…the Government to put in place national multi-year ringfenced funding for specialist support services. This funding should include a separate pot for ‘by and for’ services, which are designed and…
Speak up with Women’s Aid. We need your help to support women and their children. Abuse impacts women and children. But government funding doesn’t fully protect them. Sign our open…
…of women and their children without any dedicated funding. This trend is wider than just services for children and young people, with the £321 million funding gap risking the future…
…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…
…of their service’s work. Our 2020 Fragile Funding Landscape report found that more than 1 in 5 refuge services in England received no local authority commissioned funding in 2019/20 (60…
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