Domestic Violence/Funding and Grants

I am requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

A list of funding streams and contracts for specialist women’s services or services for victims (or those at risk) of domestic/sexual violence (definitions are provided further down).

Grants:

1. A list of all grant funding streams specifically for these services in 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14

2. The total value of each grant funding stream in 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14

3. A list of recipients of grants under each grant funding stream in 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, and 2013/14, together with the funding awarded to each organisation each year, and what the funding was for

4. A list of recipients of grants under funding streams that were not overall solely for these services, but where the grantee was awarded the grant for providing these services, in 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14, together with the funding awarded to each organisation each year, what funding stream it was awarded from, and what the funding was for

To clarify question 4 – if funding was awarded to a charity for specialist women’s services, but that grant came from a general funding pot, it would fall under question 4. An example might be an ethnic minority women’s group funded from a general community services grant stream.

Where a grant funding stream was changed during the time period in question, please list each stream that was in operation each year; the change from one stream to another will then be self-evident.

Contracts:

5. A list of all funding programmes for these services and their combined funding for each programme each year in 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 (budgeted funding will suffice for 2013/14)

6. A list of all current contracts for provision of these services, together with the contracted provider under each contract, the start date and length of each contract, the full-term value of each contract, and the funding programme the contract was awarded under (e.g. supported housing)

This section will include contracts for provision of supported housing and extra-care housing for domestic and sexual violence, plus relevant counselling services, relevant services delivered via SureStart/Children’s Centres,

Definitions:

This request is concerned with funding streams and contracts awarded by the council, regardless of whether or not they are routing central government money (e.g Area Based Grants). This request includes both grants and contracts.

In some cases, grant funding will be awarded under contracts – e.g. supported housing. In this case please list these under ‘contracts’ rather than ‘grants’. The ‘grants’ section of this request relates to one-off funding pots rather than ongoing contracts.

Please exclude the Working Neighbourhoods Fund from the entirety of this request.

Section 12:

If locating all the requested information would exceed the section 12 cost limit, please exclude 2010/11 data from all questions, and process the remainder of the request.

Please let me know if you have any questions or require any clarifications. I would like the information sent electronically.