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<p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is using additional ringfenced funding to increase
the number of Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs) and Independent Sexual
Violence Advisers (ISVAs) it funds by 300 to over 1,000 by 2024/2025. For 2022/23,
we are providing £34 million of ringfenced funding for Police and Crime Commissioners
(PCCs) to locally commission IDVAs and ISVAs. It is the responsibility of the PCCs
to decide how to target recruitment of specialist IDVAs, including those that support
elderly victims, based on their assessment of local need.</p><p>In addition, the Government
is committed to further building capacity in specialist service provision and has
launched a £6m Violence Against Women and Girls Support and Specialist Services Fund.
The fund is led by the Home Office with a £3m contribution from MoJ for ‘by and for’
services, open to both national and local organisations. ‘By and for’ services are
specialist services that are led, designed, and delivered by and for the users and
communities they aim to serve. One of the fund’s ambitions is to increase the number
of ‘by and for’ IDVAs and ISVAs.</p><p>The MoJ continually reviews the most effective
mechanism for allocating funding for IDVAs and ISVAs.</p>
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