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<p>The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy set 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. Details of the
funding are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/violence-against-women-and-girls-service-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2020</p><p>Through
the Police Transformation Fund we are spending £5.8 million to support innovative
projects to tackle domestic abuse. More details of the funding are available at <a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2018"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2018</a></p><p>We
have also announced an £8 million fund to support children affected by domestic abuse,
which gives charities, local authorities and other organisations the chance to bid
for money for projects designed to intervene early to help children who have been
directly or indirectly affected by domestic abuse. We will announce successful bids
shortly.</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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