Decision details
Domestic Abuse - Safe Accommodation and Support 22/23
Decision Maker: Assistant Director All Ages Commissioning
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 introduced a new
statutory framework for the delivery of support to victim-survivors
of domestic abuse and their children in safe accommodation. The Act
placed several duties on each tier one local authority including
to:
1. Assess the need for accommodation-based domestic abuse support
in their area for all victim-survivors or their children, including
those who come from outside the area.
2. Develop and publish a strategy for the provision of such support
to cover their locality, having regard to the needs
assessment.
3. Give effect to the strategy (through commissioning /
de-commissioning decisions).
The need for additional safe accommodation has been identified
through the needs assessment process. This service will provide a
minimum of 6 new units of safe accommodation with support. The
service will work closely with the councils housing solutions team
to place victim-survivors of domestic abuse into safe
accommodation.
Contact: Ewen Archibald, Interim Assistant Director, All Ages Commissioning Email: Ewen.Archibald@herefordshire.gov.uk Tel: 01432 261970.
Publication date: 24/11/2022
Date of decision: 15/11/2022
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