Dear Mr Mortimer
Wiltshire County
Council does not hold any information in relation to your request
about help available for men suffering domestic abuse in this area.
However the following information may be of use to you.
At present the
Supporting People budget is used to fund four separate schemes across
the County that cater for people escaping domestic violence. All of
the schemes are female only and do not accept males (even teenage
male dependants).
However, we plan
to begin work on a strategic review of services within the next six
months and seek to establish the needs of males within Wiltshire and
to address these appropriately.
Help & support
for women:
The Supporting
People Partnership funds four organisations that provide refuges for
females escaping domestic violence:
Knightstone Housing
Association - £80,710 pa
Salisbury Women’s Refuge - £129,397 pa
Sarsen Housing Association - £30,962 pa
Westlea Housing Association - £55,873 pa
These figures
are for the current financial year 2006/07
As part of our
‘generic floating support’ service we also fund floating
support for victims of domestic violence. This service is provided
by a local consortium called ‘Community 4’ who for a full
financial year would receive £810k, of which we would expect
at least £80k to be for work with victims and perpetrators of
domestic violence.
The Children and
Families section of the Department for Children and Education provide
grant aid of £3,280 to SPLITZ who provide practical help and
advice to families including adults with experience of domestic violence
(men and women). Children and Families provide £15,000 grant
aid to the Domestic Violence Intervention Partnership (DVIP).
Yours sincerely
Sharron Evans
Corporate Information Officer
Corporate Standards Team
County Hall
By thesea Road
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14 8JN
01225 713643
