拢7.17 million awarded to PCCs for tackling perpetrators of domestic abuse
拢7.17 million awarded for Police and Crime Commissioners working with perpetrators of domestic abuse.
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This funding will be used for a range of innovative perpetrator programmes to last beyond the pandemic to help offenders change their behaviours and prevent these destructive crimes from happening in the first place.
Independent research has shown these programmes to cut risk of physical abuse; the Drive Partnership, which is one of the programmes being funded is shown to cut risk by 82%.
This funding forms part of the 拢10 million announced by the Chancellor in this year鈥檚 Budget (from April 2020 鈥� March 2021) for interventions working with perpetrators of domestic abuse.
The 拢7.17 million of funding being provided was open to Police and Crime Commissioners across England and Wales and is broken down into:
- 拢1.2 million funding for implementation of the Drive Programme. Drive is a national project in England and Wales, with service providers delivery the intervention in local areas aimed at high harm, high risk perpetrators
- over 拢5.9 million funding for perpetrator programmes or interventions delivered to perpetrators of domestic abuse in the community (other than Drive)