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<p>Our Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy sets out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybody’s business and over this spending review period, we are providing £100 million of dedicated funding to tackle VAWG.</p><p>VAWG services are mainly commissioned at a local level by Police and Crime Commissioners, local authorities and health commissioners. The Government’s VAWG National Statement of Expectations encourages such decisions to be taken at a local level and should be driven by local need.</p><p>Our £17 million three-year VAWG Service Transformation Fund, is providing funding to 41 projects across England and Wales to embed local best practice and ensure that early intervention and prevention, not crisis response, is the norm. All local authorities, Police and Crime Commissioners and Clinical Commissioning Groups were invited to apply, however not every area took up the opportunity to do so. The application process was highly competitive, and decisions were taken to ensure a reasonable spread of funding geographically, by type of VAWG, and by stage of intervention. No funding has been provided through the VAWG Service Transformation Fund directly to Barnsley or South Yorkshire.</p><p>Details of the allocated funding is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/violence-against-women-and-girls-service-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2020" target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/violence-against-women-and-girls-service-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2020</a></p> |