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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>
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