How much it has spent each year from the £20 million fund to tackle violence against women, broken down by programme.

The following table confirms expenditure from the £20m in 2015-16 and the confirmed sums allocated for 2016-17 and 2017-18. Total expenditure and sums allocated to date total £14.582m from the £20m. Additional allocations will be confirmed over the remainder of the funding period to March 2018.
Organisation
(total announced)
2015-16
Expenditure
2016-17
Allocated
2017-18
Allocated
ASSIST
Funding of specialist advocacy service for victims of domestic abuse. (£3.000m)
£1.000m
£1.000m
£1.000m
Edinburgh Domestic Abuse Court Service
Funding of specialist advocacy services for victims of domestic abuse (£0.441m)
£0.147m
£0.147m
£0.147m
Rape Crisis Scotland
Funding of specialist advocacy service for victims of sexual offences, including new provision in Orkney and Shetland (£1.851m)

£0.475m
£0.688m
£0.688m
Rape Crisis Scotland
Public Awareness Campaign
RCS campaign to improve public understanding of responses to rape. (£0.030m)
-
£0.030m
-
SCTS and COPFS
Additional resources to prioritise the processing of domestic abuse and sexual offences cases through the courts. (£7.200m)

£2.400m

£2.400m
£2.400m
Violence Reduction Unit
Expanded programmes in schools training young mentors to safely challenge and speak out against bullying, abuse and violence. Plus, expand programmes delivered to healthcare students; NHS staff, allied health professionals and non-health care professions to spot the signs of potential abuse. (£0.565m)

£0.108m
£0.226m
£0.231m
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Specialist trauma service for female victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. (£0.046m)
-

£0.046m

Police Scotland
Disclosure Scheme for Domestic Abuse (Claire’s Law). (£0.080m)
£0.080m
-
-
The University of Strathclyde Funding for the development of a “toolkit” to embed Equally Safe in HEIs to tackle stalking, harassment, domestic abuse and sexual violence and to pilot this approach. (£0.300m)
-
£0.300m
Allocation to be confirmed
Scottish Women’s Aid
Pilot service to assist women survivors of domestic abuse into fair employment. (£0.190m)
-
£0.190m
Allocation to be confirmed
Independent National Scoping Exercise of Advocacy Services Independent scoping exercise of the availability, provision of and risk assessment standards of specialist advocacy services for victims of gender based violence across Scotland. (£0.045m)
-
£0.045m
-
National Specialist and Screening Services Directorate
NHS National Services Scotland – short term appointment to work with Health Boards and assess services currently in place for forensic examinations of victims of rape and sexual assault (£0.080m)
-
£0.040m

£0.040m

Scottish Women’s Rights Centre
Expanded finding to extend the capacity and geographical reach of specialist independent legal advice service for victims of gender based violence. (£0.665m)
-
£0.665m allocated over 2016-17 and 2017-18 – breakdown between years is not available*
Caledonian System
Improvement of specialist court mandated perpetrator programme for men and associated women’s and children’s services and increasing capacity of programmes in existing areas. (£0.360m)
-
£0.360m allocated over 2016-17 and 2017-18 – breakdown between years is not available*
Total (£14.853m)
£4.21m
£5.112m
£4.506m
* break down not available to add to year end totals