Decision details

Recommissioning Domestic Abuse Services

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

Approval is requested for continued funding to recommission Domestic Abuse services. it is intended to jointly commission the service with Staffordshire Commissioners office and Stoke upon Trent City Council.

Decisions:

“By pooling our resources with Stoke-on-Trent and the Staffordshire Commissioner’s Office, we have been able to ensure services for victims and families are consistently available across the whole of Staffordshire.

 

We want these services to really make a difference to victims, perpetrators and families, and the fact that we have been recognised nationally shows that the current arrangements are having a positive effect. This is why we are recommending the current arrangements are continued for at least the next three years to ensure victims of domestic abuse are able to access the services they need, regardless of where they live in the county.”

 

Victoria Wilson, Cabinet Member for Communities and Culture

 

Reasons for the Decision – To consider proposals for the joint commissioning, with Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the Staffordshire Commissioner Office, of Domestic Abuse Victim and Perpetrator Services.

 

Decision – That it be agreed that:

 

(i)         The Domestic Abuse victim and perpetrator services be re-commissioned and funded for up to five years, with an initial three-year contract with the potential to extend for a further two years, providing continuity and sustainability for this much-needed and valuable service.

 

(ii)     The commissioning be carried out jointly with Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the Staffordshire Commissioners Office (SCO) to procure Domestic Abuse Services across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, and for the Staffordshire Commissioners office to be the Lead Commissioner.

 

(iii)  The funding from Staffordshire County Council for the recommissioned service is maintained at the current level of £670,450 per annum; this will be increased in line with the County Council’s MTFS inflation assumptions and will therefore mean that £683,860 will be available for the start of the recommissioned Contract.

Report author: Trish Caldwell

Publication date: 20/10/2022

Date of decision: 19/10/2022

Decided at meeting: 19/10/2022 - Cabinet

Effective from: 26/10/2022

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