Sexual Offences: Victim Support Schemes
(asked on 11th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of their budget CCGs have spent on therapeutic services for survivors of sexual abuse.
NHS England has made no assessment of the effectiveness of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in commissioning therapeutic care for survivors of sexual assault.
Following publication of the Strategic Direction for Sexual Assault and Abuse Services in April 2018, and the NHS Long Term Plan in January 2019, a letter was sent to commissioners on 6 February from myself and Kate Davies, Director of Health and Justice, Armed Forces and Sexual Assault Services Commissioning at NHS England. The letter asks commissioners to look at how they are meeting their responsibilities for victims and survivors of sexual assault and sets out the importance of commissioning better services that support victims in an informed and consistent way.
A copy of the letter can be found at the following link:
Information on the proportion of their budget CCGs have spent on therapeutic services for survivors of sexual abuse is not collected or held centrally.