Definitions:
• Refuge/safe accommodation: Accommodation and support provided for survivors experiencing domestic abuse. Accommodation can be in any or all of shared, self-contained, or dispersed housing.
• Non-refuge/community-based services: Services for survivors of domestic abuse provided separately from accommodation services. This may include floating support, outreach, IDVA/DAPA projects, specialist services for children and young people experiencing domestic abuse (including support for children with their non-abusive parent), counselling, group work programmes/support groups, helpline services, drop-in services, prevention and awareness raising work and any other non-accommodation based services.
• Perpetrator work: Interventions for perpetrators of domestic abuse which are designed to support perpetrators to change their behaviour and make them accountable for their behaviour, aiming to safeguard survivors and reduce the harms of domestic abuse.
• In-house services: Services delivered directly by staff employed by the local authority and not contracted to another organisation.
• Commissioned funding: Funding secured through a competitive tender process.
• Grant funding: A sum of money provided under a Grant Funding Agreement, where applicants must meet the conditions of a fund.
Q1. Refuge/safe accommodation services
Please fill out this table with information about all of the refuge and/or safe accommodation services for survivors of domestic abuse that your local authority funds in your area in 2025/26, including any refuge/safe accommodation services that are delivered in-house.
Refuge/safe accommodation services
a. Which organisation/s do you currently fund to deliver refuge and/or safe accommodation services in your area? b. When did the current contract for this commissioned service start? (Month/Year) c. When does the current contract for this commissioned service end? (Month/Year) d. How is the funding for this service delivered? Please mark as many options as relevant with an 'X'. e. If known, how many bedspaces for adults does your local authority fund this organisation to provide?
Commissioned funding Grant funding Service delivered in-house Other (please specify) / Comments
e.g. Avon Valley Domestic Abuse Service e.g. May 2024 e.g. May 2027 X X e.g. mixture of contract and grant funding. e.g. 12
f. If there is any other information you would like to provide to clarify your answers to Q1 please tell us here:
Q2. Non-refuge/community-based services:
• Please fill out this table with information about any non-refuge/community-based services for survivors of domestic abuse and any perpetrator work that your local authority funds in your area in 2025/26, including any services delivered in-house.
• Please include details of any non-refuge/community-based services you fund which are provided by organisations already listed in Q1.
• Please refer to the definitions in the introduction and tell us about the full range of services that organisations are funded to provide.
Non-refuge/community-based services
a. Which organisation/s do you currently fund to deliver non-refuge/community-based services for survivors of domestic abuse and/or perpetrator work in your area? b. Which types of services do you fund this organisation to deliver?
e.g. Avon Valley Domestic Abuse Service e.g. Domestic abuse outreach service and IDVA project, perpetrator work