The Government currently fund five national telephone helplines for victims of domestic violence. A breakdown can be found in the following table:
| £ | |||
| 2011-12 | 2012-13 | Forecasted 2013-14 | |
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National Domestic Violence Helpline (operated by Women’s Aid/Refuge) | |||
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National LGBT Domestic Violence Helpline (operated by Broken Rainbow) | |||
Young Offender Institutions: Crimes of Violence
Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the prevalence of gang-related violence in youth offender institutions. [180491]
Jeremy Wright: The Government are addressing the issue of gang-related violence generally through the Ending Gangs and Youth Violence programme (EGYV). The current programme includes a focus on addressing levels of gang-associated violence in both under-18 young offender institutions (YOIs), and in YOIs for young adults. The latest annual report on the EGYV programme was published on 13 December 2013 and is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ending-gang-and-youth-violence-review-2012-to-2013
Information held centrally on assaults does not separately identify gang-related incidents owing to difficulties both in defining these and in drawing connections between some incidents and gang-related factors.
Young Offenders: Rehabilitation
Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps he is taking to improve the transition of young offenders from custody back into mainstream society. [180492]
Jeremy Wright: I refer the hon. Member to my earlier answer of 5 November 2013 to question 173921 (HC Deb, 5 November 2013, Official Report, column 125W).