Violence Against Women and Girls Services - funding and commissioning review: terms of reference - easy read
Easy read version of the terms of reference for the independent Violence Against Women and Girls Services review of funding and commissioning.
Violence Against Women and Girls Services: Review of Funding and Commissioning - Terms of Reference
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This review was spoken about in the Scottish Parliament debate on 25 November 2021.
A debate is when an idea is talked about by people with different opinions.
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It is called the Review of the Funding and Commissioning of Violence Against Women and Girls Services.
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Violence Against Women and Girls Services are things like:
- support/counselling
- information and advice
- housing
- legal support
- care
for women and children who are being hurt or harmed.
These services are also called specialist services.
What will the Review do?
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The aim of the Review is to make sure that money is used in a way that is:
- fair
- well planned
- agreed
- long lasting
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The specialist services will also:
- be for children who are victims
- be for young people who are victims
- work on making these people safer
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The Review will be based on human rights.
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The Review will be fair.
It will use the Public Sector Equality Duty.
The Public Sector Equality Duty means that public authorities – like councils, police and schools – must think about how their work affects people with protected characteristics
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Protected characteristics include:
- age
- having a disability
- transgender - when someone does not identify as the sex on their birth certificate
- marriage and civil partnership
- pregnancy and maternity
- race
- religion
- sex – for example female
- what kinds of people someone has romantic feelings about – for example same sex couples
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The Review will understand that women are more likely to be harmed than men. And that they will need extra support.
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The Review will understand that it takes many organisations working together to make sure that services are able to help all areas of someone's life.
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The Review will not look at services for the people who hurt or harm women, young people and children.
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It will just focus on services for:
- victims who are women
- victims who are young people
- victims who are children
What will the Review make suggestions about?
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The Review will think about these 8 things and make suggestions about them.
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1. Make a framework for the whole of Scotland which explains things like:
- how to get services across the whole of Scotland
- the basic levels of support and services
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2. How to protect services in Scottish law.
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3. Choose clear ways to explain the specialist services in a way that supports:
- human rights
- that women are more likely to be harmed than men
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4. Making a plan to help Local Authorities and Health and Social Care organisations to choose and buy the services they need.
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5. Looking carefully at how long funding happens for and how best to check that a good job is being done.
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6. Making sure that people who have lived experience of violence can help with choosing services.
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7. Looking at how local organisations that are against violence can help.
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8. Checking that services link together so that everyone is treated equally.
Which work will the Review look at?
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The Review will look at:
- work that is happening now
- work that has been done in the past
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Some of this work is:
- The Equally Safe Delivery Plan
- a report by Baroness Kennedy
- United Nations Conventions
- the National Care Service
- the Gender Pay Gap Action Plan
- the Fairer Scotland Action Plan
- the Child Poverty Delivery Plan
- the Gender Equality Taskforce
- work from the Victims Taskforce
How will the Review happen?
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Lesley Irving is in charge of the Review.
She is called the Chair.
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Lesley Irving is independent.
In this document, independent means she will not be told by anyone else what to write or do.
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Lesley Irving will:
- talk with lots of partner organisations
- have support from the Advisory Group
- make sure that people with lived experience of the specialist services take full part in the Review
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The Review will be finished by March 2023.
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If you want to know more about the Review, you can email vawgfundingreview@gov.scot
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