Written Question · S5W-03902 · Session 5
How much funding it provided to women’s community justice centres in each year since 2011-12, broken down by centre.
The question
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it provided to women’s community justice centres in each year since 2011-12, broken down by centre.
The answer
In 2013-14 and 14-15 the Scottish Government allocated grant funding totalling £3.22 million to support the development of specific projects providing community justice services for women, in response to the recommendations of the Commission on Women Offenders (CWO). These grants were made in response to proposals submitted by local community justice bodies. Three proposals were to establish Community Justice Centres, with other projects seeking to implement the CWO’s recommendations for gender specific, holistic and multi-agency services in other forms that suited local need and resources. A further £640k was provided in 2015-16 to a number of these projects (and Centres) which requested additional support.
These grants were agreed as one-off payments, where ongoing services would be sustained by local resources at the conclusion of the grant funding.
Grant funding to the three Community Justice Centre projects was as follows:
Location
Project
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
Edinburgh
Willow Service
£305,184
£298,835
£154,000
Glasgow
Tomorrow’s Women Glasgow
£267,525
£374,020
£46,000
Aberdeen
Women Offenders Services
£54,954
£194,778
£30,000
NOTES:
Details of SG’s grant funding in 2013-17 to support local community justice services for women (apart from Community Justice Centres) have been reported separately, in response to your question S5W-03901 on 17 November 2016.
It is not possible to provide details on the full funding issued by Scottish Government in respect of community justice activity specifically for women. A total of £99.3m of funding is distributed annually through Community Justice Authorities (CJAs) for the delivery of Criminal Justice Social Work (CJSW) services and programmes to reduce reoffending. It is not possible to break this funding down by gender, as much of the expenditure and resources are applicable to both genders.
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These grants were agreed as one-off payments, where ongoing services would be sustained by local resources at the conclusion of the grant funding.
Grant funding to the three Community Justice Centre projects was as follows:
Location
Project
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
Edinburgh
Willow Service
£305,184
£298,835
£154,000
Glasgow
Tomorrow’s Women Glasgow
£267,525
£374,020
£46,000
Aberdeen
Women Offenders Services
£54,954
£194,778
£30,000
NOTES:
Details of SG’s grant funding in 2013-17 to support local community justice services for women (apart from Community Justice Centres) have been reported separately, in response to your question S5W-03901 on 17 November 2016.
It is not possible to provide details on the full funding issued by Scottish Government in respect of community justice activity specifically for women. A total of £99.3m of funding is distributed annually through Community Justice Authorities (CJAs) for the delivery of Criminal Justice Social Work (CJSW) services and programmes to reduce reoffending. It is not possible to break this funding down by gender, as much of the expenditure and resources are applicable to both genders.
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S5W-03902 by reference.