Child care & legal

7 January 2020

Request & response

Our budget is a VAWG budget and the below answers relate to VAWG spending.

What services do you commission for survivors of domestic abuse (adults and children)?

Which ‘service type’ is this commissioned service (see attached doc. ‘Routes to Support definitions)

When did the current contract for this commissioned service start, and what is its duration? (Month/Year)

When will this commissioned service be re- tendered? (Month/Year)

What is the total monetary value of the contract for this commissioned service?

Which organisation currently holds this contract?

The Gaia Centre – a community based support service for those

experiencing all forms of VAWG.

Community based support – outreach and Domestic abuse advocacy project

Current contract started in April 2017 with a three year term.

Unconfirmed at present

£1,803,922 over 3 years.

Refuge.

Refuge – a refuge

for women of African or African Caribbean descent fleeing abuse.

Accommodation

based: refuge.

Current contract

started in April 2017 with a three year term.

Unconfirmed at

present

£212,841 over 3

years.

Refuge.

Solas Anois – a

Accommodation

Current contract

Unconfirmed at

£552,480 over 3

Solace Women's

refuge for Irish

based: refuge

for all three

present

years.

Aid.

and Traveller

services started

women fleeing

in April 2017 with

abuse; Emmeline

a three year

House – a refuge

term.

for women

fleeing abuse;

Asha – a refuge

for South Asian

women fleeing

abuse.

Africa Advocacy

Community

Current contract

Unconfirmed at

£60,000 over 2

Africa Advocacy

Foundation – community based 1:1 therapeutic support and case work to women who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation.

based support – outreach and therapeutic/ recovery work

started in April 2018 for a one year term which was extended for one year from April 2019 to

March 2020.

present

years.

Foundation.

Prevent and Change – systems change project and offender management programme for domestic violence perpetrators across Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark with support for associated victims residing

in the three boroughs.

Community based support – outreach and Domestic abuse advocacy project

Current contract started in December 2017 ending in March 2020.

N/A

£342,945 over three years.

Solace Women’s Aid.

Rape Crisis South

London – provision of additional therapeutic support for Lambeth residents.

Therapeutic/

recovery work

Current contract

started in April 2019 for a two year period.

N/A

£40,608 over two

years.

Rape Crisis South

London.

Q2) Looking at your total current commissioned spend on domestic abuse provision, it is currently higher or lower or the same as when you last commissioned domestic abuse provision, and if higher or lower, by how much?

Our budget is a VAWG budget and the below answers relate to VAWG spending.

In 2017/18 our total commissioned spend on VAWG provision was £928,390. In 2019/20 our total commissioned spend on VAWG provision was £1,028,374. Spend is currently higher by £99,984

Q3) Does your local authority fund any domestic abuse services outside of a commissioning process? If so, please list them here:

What non- commissioned services do you fund for survivors of domestic abuse (adults and children)?

Funding amount (per financial year)

How do you fund this service?

Which organisation receives this funding?

Caseworkers, victims group work

programme and workforce development

£223,233 (2019/20).

Funded by Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP)

Refuge, St. Michael’s Fellowship and Lambeth Council.

An Early Intervention

£41,687 (2019/20).

Funded by Lambeth

Refuge.

Worker

Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)