Crime: Victims

(asked on 23rd September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Victims Strategy, what steps he has taken to introduce uniform standards and a new framework of indicators for (a) centrally funded victims services, (b) PCCs, and (c) Sexual Assault Referral Centres.


Answered by
Alex Chalk Portrait
Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 28th September 2020

The Government has taken steps to improve the funding for victims’ services as part of the Victims Strategy, and with greater investment comes with greater accountability.

Since 2014 grant agreements for all Ministry of Justice nationally funded victims’ services have included reporting standards to demonstrate accountability, accuracy and robustness of data. To satisfy these standards, victims’ services must complete biannual returns capturing data on spend, outputs and outcomes.

In addition, from April 2020 we have introduced new reporting standards for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) to ensure we are capturing quality data on victims’ services at the local level.

In England, the Department of Health and Social Care funded Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) have been measured against national indicators since 2016 with SARC services reporting against a national data set on a quarterly basis.

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