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From: CRDJHenderson@aol.com
To: dave.mortimer@mensaid.com
Cc: lhalton@westdevon.gov.uk; dbates@westdevon.gov.uk; mplayle@westdevon.gov.uk
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 3:32 PM
Subject: Official request for information by Men's Aid

Dear Mr Mortimer

Thank you for your enquiry.

To set your enquiry in context - West Devon Borough Council is the largest district in Devon, and one of the largest in the entire country. It is a rural area that covers 458 square miles, with a resident population of just over 50 thousand. As such a rural district, with low population and crime statistics, it is not a well resourced council, however it does seek to target those resources effectively to all the priority areas.

West Devon Borough Council does not contribute directly to support groups for male victims of domestic violence. It does contributes £2,000 towards West Devon Women's Aid which is based in Okehampton - WDBC led on the development of this Outreach Project and Helpline which was set up around six years ago. Council officers (particularly from housing and community safety) are working closely with the countywide partnership to improve delivery of service for all those effected by domestic violence and abuse.

For the last two years, the Safer West Devon Community Safety Partnership has contributed approximately £21,333 Home Office funding into the countywide Against Domestic Violence & Abuse (ADVA) Partnership. This pooled funding is then used to deliver the ADVA Strategy, part of which is the provision of services for victims and perpetrators of domestic violence and abuse.

From this April, the funding has not come down to the districts in the same way. Under Devon's Local Area Agreement, all Home Office funding is pooled centrally at county level and divided up against priority themes under the Safer Devon Partnership. One of these themes is Domestic Violence.

Domestic violence did very well out of the countywide allocation of funds. From a total of £1.1m which has to cover: anti social behaviour, volume crime, alcohol & drugs programmes, prejudice & hate crime, youth crime prevention and central data analyisis and infrastructure, DV actually received £190, 431 which is a substantial proportion of the overall funding.

The main areas covered by the ADVA Strategy are: Women’s support services, Male support service, Children’s support service, Training, REPAIR, Advocacy, Awareness, Survivors support group, ISB evaluation, ADVA partnership

Please find attached the most up-to-date version I hold of the ADVA template of spend for this current financial year. If you require information on the precise allocation of this funding under the ADVA Strategy, please contact the ADVA Manager Rachel Martin on 01392 382233 or by email at rachel.martin@devon.gov.uk

I hope that this satisfactorily answers your queries - if you require any further information, please do not hesitate to come back to us.

With best wishes

Debby Henderson
Community Safety Coordinator
Safer West Devon Community Safety Partnership

Safer Devon Partnership 

Theme title: Domestic Violence and abuse

Outcome: Domestic violence and abuse is reduced

Strategic Links: Against Domestic Violence and Abuse (adva) Partnership

Project	Amount	Commissioning lead	Outcome	Target	Progress
Adva  – SDP contribution is part of the wider pooled budget of £575,931 that delivers the county wide strategy core components of which are shown below	190,431	DCC on behalf of adva	a) Increase the level of reported DV incidents to the police b) % of offences brought to justice as a proportion of the total number of reported offences	a) 10% increase by 2008 from baseline of 7157 ie 7873 b) 10% increase by 2008 from baseline of 25.4% ie 35.4%	a) April – Sep 05 total reports = 4060 Target on track b) April – Sep Outturn figures to be finalised
Women’s support services Male support service Children’s support service Training REPAIR Advocacy Awareness Survivors support group ISB evaluation Adva partnership	280,900   18,000   98,600   69,000   39,880   33,000   16,000     5,000     5,000   14,000

A paragraph detailing theme group membership, method of operation and how this action plan reflects national objectives. Adva is partnership with 60+ members covering all statutory and voluntary agencies involved in DV work. It operates via partnership meetings three times a year, and Executive Committee drawn from funding agencies (DCC, Police, Health, Probation, CSPs, Women’s’ Aid, DV Forums) and theme groups for Perpetrators, Survivors, Children, Training and Awareness. It works to a multi-agency strategy which reflects both national crime reduction targets and the Home Office National Domestic Violence plan

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