Topic: Victims’ services

The Commissioners welcome the emergency funding, "which will ensure help and support for thousands of victims for the next few months,” and urge the government to work quickly to provide clarity on longer-term funding.

In his letter to the Commissioners, Minister Chalk sets out the government’s response to their joint calls for a second round of extraordinary COVID-19 and longer-term funding.

The winter funding is "much needed" but both Commissioners call on the government to provide longer-term funding to enable services to continue their "critical work" past March 2021.

The Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, Dame Vera Baird QC, and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs, have called on the government to provide essential funding to support victims’ services through to the end of the financial year.

As we enter lockdown conditions once more, the Victims’ Commissioner blogs on the lessons that must be learned from the Spring lockdown.

The Victims’ Commissioner joined Embrace as part of their webinar series on how crime affects children to look at how services are developing to help young victims.

A joint statement from the Victims’ Commissioner and the National Probation Service in response to the Victims’ Commissioner’s letter of 7 August.