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Wolverhampton awarded £500,000 to prevent violence against women and girls (23 August 2017)

Date: 23/08/2017
Duncan Lewis, Family Solicitors, Wolverhampton awarded £500,000 to prevent violence against women and girls

City of Wolverhampton Council has been awarded more than £500,000 to further improve its work in preventing violence against women and girls.

The funding is the result of a successful bid made to the Home Office's Violence against Women and Girls Transformation Fund, which was launched in 2016 to aid, promote and embed good practice around domestic abuse and to ensure early intervention and prevention become standard practice.

The council said that the founding would support four bespoke programmes over a three-year period – and will help local organisations tackling various aspects of violence against women and girls, including domestic abuse, sexual violence, female genital mutilation, forced marriage and “honour-based violence”.

Chair of the Safer Wolverhampton Partnership, Linda Sanders, said:

“Organisations in Wolverhampton are making good progress in tackling violence against women and girls, but – like any major city – we still face a number of key challenges.

“This funding will play an important role in helping us address some of these issues – and not only support victims of violence, but also give perpetrators the help they need to break the cycle of harm.”


City of Wolverhampton Council's Cabinet Member for Public Health and Wellbeing, Councillor Paul Sweet, added:

“Hundreds of applications were made to this fund by organisations from across the country – and it is testament to the strength of the programmes that the Safer Wolverhampton Partnership is developing that it was one of only 40 successful bids nationwide.”

The council says the programmes include one to give perpetrators the tools they need to break the cycle of harm, while also providing support and counselling for their families – and another will provide training and support for GPs and clinical staff, in order to strengthen reporting of incidents and care for those suffering from domestic violence.

The existing Safer Homes Scheme – which supports victims of abuse to remain in their own homes safely – will be extended; while the fourth programme will work with partners to fully embed preventative and early intervention work into their services.

The new programmes will be launched later in 2017 – and will support the Safer Wolverhampton Partnership's Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy 2016-2019.

The Safer Wolverhampton Partnership comprises a range of partners committed to working together to tackle issues of crime and community safety in a co-ordinated way to deliver a collective response – including West Midlands Police, the City of Wolverhampton Council, West Midlands Fire Service, Wolverhampton Clinical Commissioning Group, National Probation Service, Wolverhampton Domestic Violence Forum, Prison Services, Wolverhampton Homes and the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner.

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