Violence Against Women and Girls - Independent Strategic Review of Funding and Commissioning of Services: report - easy read
Easy read version of the Independent Strategic Review of Funding and Commissioning of Violence Against Women and Girls Services report.
Violence Against Women and Girls: A report about the funding for services: Easy Read
What this document will tell you
The Scottish Government is planning new funding for Violence Against Women and Girls services.
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This is a report.
It will tell you what we think are the most important things to make Violence Against Women and Girls services better.
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Violence Against Women and Girls means things like:
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- making them feel frightened
- saying nasty things
- controlling their lives
- threatening them
- hitting them
- sexual attacks
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Violence Against Women and Girls services are things like:
- safe places to stay
- counselling – someone to talk to
- advice
- money
- legal support – advice about laws
- specialist health care
- specialist crime support
- education
- help finding a job
Our aim
We were asked to make a new plan.
The new plan is also called a model.
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The new model will make sure that violence against women and girls services get much better.
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We want the services to be:
- fair
- reliable – they are always there
- linked to other services well
- funded well with enough money
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Our new model is based on lots of human rights, including:
- children's rights
- women's rights
- rights about money
- rights about culture
- rights about society
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What we say should happen
We say that violence against women and girls needs to be given the same importance as things like Child Protection.
This is called being statutory.
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We have made a list of core services.
Core services mean the basic services that everyone should get.
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We say that every woman, young person and child should get offered these core services.
If they get offered more than the core services then that is even better.
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We say that people with lived experience of violence should help make the new model happen.
This includes:
- women
- young people
- children
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We say that making these services a right in law means that funding will change.
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Money will be given to local authorities to only be spent on these services.
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The Scottish Government will still pay for things like:
- helplines
- national offices
- campaigns
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We say there should be a Scottish plan to stop violence against women and girls happening.
The plan should be made by organisations working together.
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We say that in the future these services should get paid 1 pound for every 10 pounds that is spent on tackling violence against women and girls in Scotland.
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This is the same aim as many countries in Europe.
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We say that there should be a close look at how much money the Scottish Government spends on women and children.
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We say that the whole system of services and organisations that is already there, needs to work better together.
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This means organisations like:
- NHS
- Police Scotland
- charities
- courts
- local authorities
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There needs to be lots of really good training.
There needs to be money for:
- organising everything
- paperwork
- checking and learning
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We say there should be a new Commissioner for violence against women and girls.
A commissioner is someone who speaks up for a group and who works to make more people understand.
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Violence against women and girls services should be led by someone in the Scottish Government who is in charge of big decisions.
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5 actions that need to happen now
1. Work hard to reach everyone on the waiting lists for these services.
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2. Give money to start getting organisations and services to work together better.
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3. Give money to make sure that women and children in every local area can get help to recover if they have been affected by violence.
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4. Start new ways of keeping information and checking how well things are going.
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5. The Scottish Government and COSLA need to make a time plan for when all the changes will happen.
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It should be written by December 2023.
Contact
Email: vawgfundingreview@gov.scot
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