Annex 4
WOMEN'S AID FEDERATION OF ENGLAND STATISTICS
ON LOCAL SERVICE PROVISION
SUMMARY FROM
LAST ANNUAL
REPORT (COVERING
2005-06)
Services provided by domestic violence sector
In addition to the work carried out by
our national office, our England-wide network of local community-based
domestic violence organisations also provide vital direct services
to women and their children. These include:
— Refuge-based services, providing
a package of temporary accommodation, support, information and
advocacy.
— Outreach, floating support
and other non-refuge based services providing a wide range of
advocacy and support, including:
— Resettlement services—enabling
women and their children to make new lives in the community after
leaving refuge.
— Drop-in centres and survivors'
support groups.
— Specialist court advocacy
services.
— "Floating support"
schemes providing advocacy and support to families living in the
community.
The total number of women supported by
domestic violence services in England (both residential and non-residential)
on a typical day—2 November 2006—was 11,310.
This has increased by 50% since 2003.
On a typical day, 3,615 women and 3,580
children are resident in refuge accommodation in England. This
is an increase of 12% over the past four years.
50% of these children are aged under
5 years.
Table 1
ESTIMATED NUMBERS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN USING
REFUGE ACCOMMODATION ANNUALLY
|
| Survey Period | Women
| Children |
|
| 2002-03 | 17,094
| 21,465 |
| 2003-04 | 18,569
| 23,084 |
| 2004-05 | 19,836
| 24,347 |
| 2005-06 | 16,815
| 19,450 |
|
Table 2
ESTIMATED NUMBERS OF WOMEN WITH NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC
FUNDS ENTERING REFUGE
|
| Survey Period | Women given refuge accommodation
| % of total women given refuge
|
|
| 2002-03 | 301
| 1.76% |
| 2003-04 | 368
| 1.98% |
| 2004-05 | 477
| 2.4% |
| 2005-06 | 305
| 1.8% |
|
Women and children provided with floating support, outreach
and advocacy services
Many domestic violence organisations offer non-refuge-based
services such as outreach, floating support, and advocacy services
in addition to, or separate from, the provision of refuge accommodation.
78% of organisations responding to the 2005-06 Annual Survey offer
some of these services, a majority of which also provide refuge
accommodation.[197]
19% of all those responding offer outreach, advocacy and/or floating
support services only.
Extrapolating[198]
from the figures provided by those responding to our Annual Survey,
we estimate that 114,430 women and 7,660 children were directly
supported by outreach, advocacy and floating support services
during 2005-06. A further 68,850 children were indirectly supported
through the support given to their mothers.[199]
Table 3
ESTIMATED NUMBERS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN SUPPORTED BY ALL
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES (BOTH REFUGE-BASED AND NON-REFUGE-BASED)
ANNUALLY
|
| Survey Period | Women—total number supported
in all services
| Children—total number supported
in all services
|
|
| 2002-03 | 122,570
| 87,796 |
| 2003-04 | 142,526
| 106,118 |
| 2004-05 | 196,205
| 129,193 |
| 2005-06 | 131,245
| 95,960 |
|
| 2 October 2007 | |
|
197
75% of those offering non-refuge-based domestic violence services
also provide refuge accommodation. Back
198
Because the response from outreach-only services was lower (at
only 50%) than that from services offering refuge accommodation,
we have made an additional adjustment to the data from this group
to take this into account; ie using the overall response rate
of 67%. Back
199
This figure is likely to be considerably under-estimated, given
that many services did not keep records of the numbers of children
living with those women they supported in non-refuge services. Back
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