£7.17 million awarded to PCCs for tackling perpetrators of domestic abuse
£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 £10 million announced by the Chancellor in this year’s Budget (from April 2020 – March 2021) for interventions working with perpetrators of domestic abuse.
The £7.17 million of funding being provided was open to Police and Crime Commissioners across England and Wales and is broken down into:
- £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 £5.9 million funding for perpetrator programmes or interventions delivered to perpetrators of domestic abuse in the community (other than Drive)