VAWG Frontline Services and Trauma Informed Support (360G-cabinetoffice-G2-GA-202203805646-22-23)

The Interpersonal Abuse Unit (IAU) is currently funding organisations which provide vital support for victims of VAWG crimes and their families. This grant will extend these services until we have completed a competition to ensure VFM and secure multi year funding to run alongside the 3 yr SR.We are seeking approval to ensure that key services for the successful implementation of the Home Office VAWG and DA Strategies (henceforth referred to as the Strategies) is not dropped whilst an associated competition is run. The key service covered by this business case is the specialised by and for services to support victims of VAWG and in particular victims with greater vulnerabilities. We propose this to be delivered by directly funding of 9 organisations for 8 months with a 2 month break clause by which point a competition would have been run; with the break clause allowing us to move more quickly should we be able to expedite the competition.