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<p>The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy sets out an ambitious programme
to make tackling VAWG everybody’s business.</p><p>Over this spending review period,
we are providing £100 million of dedicated funding to tackle VAWG. 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 driven by local need.</p><p>We
created a £17 million 3-year VAWG Service Transformation Fund, which is funding projects
across 41 areas in England and Wales to embed local best practice and ensure that
early intervention and prevention, not crisis response, is the norm.</p><p>Over £2.4m
is supporting six London Boroughs, including Lewisham, to deliver domestic abuse focused
projects aiming to prevent future or further perpetration and protect victims and
survivors.</p><p>£900,000 is supporting three innovative prevention programmes, in
Sutton, Lambeth and Waltham Forest, and £1.4m of the funding is supporting projects
to enhance the support and response for victims of domestic abuse. More details of
the funding are available at <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><p>Additionally,
the Mayors Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC) are being provided with £2.86M to
2020 from the Police Transformation Fund to support the Drive project, a preventative
response to priority high risk perpetrators of domestic abuse</p><p>The Home Office
also supports the national VAWG Helplines and recently committed funding of up to
£1.1m per annum for these services until 2021.</p>
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