What objectives it set for the funding it provided to Women’s Aid East & Midlothian in 2022.

The Scottish Government has provided funding to Women’s Aid East and Midlothian through the Third Sector Homelessness Fund and the Delivering Equally Safe Fund.
Women’s Aid East and Midlothian was funded through the Scottish Government’s Third Sector Homelessness Fund between 2021 and 2023. The objectives of Women’s Aid East and Midlothian's funding in 2022-23 was to:Deliver rapid access, permanent housing for women and children with complex needs and provide intensive and flexible support.Promote and increase the use of trauma-informed responses throughout Scotland for women and children experiencing domestic abuse.Prevent women and children experiencing domestic abuse from homelessness by implementing Housing first as a preventative approach.
Since October 2021, Women’s Aid East and Midlothian have been funded through the Delivering Equally Safe Fund, which will run until March 2025. The objectives of the fund are:Women and children affected by violence are identified (early)Women and children’s safety needs are metWomen and children’s wider wellbeing needs are metFewer people adhere to gender stereotypesPeople have increased understanding of all forms of VAWG (causes, consequences, and appropriate responses)Power, decision-making and material resources are distributed more equally between men and women.Tolerance of VAWG is reduced and people are more likely to recognise and challenge itPerpetrators are identified earlyPerpetrators are supported to change their behaviourPerpetrators are sanctioned / held to accountViolence against women and girls is reduced / eradicatedNegative impacts on women and children who have been affected by violence are reduced / eradicated
Additionally, Women’s Aid East and Midlothian received indirect funding through the 100 Days (Covid emergency) funding. In 2021, the Scottish Government awarded £2,250,000 of funding over three years to Scottish Women’s Aid through the 100 Days (Covid emergency) funding. The funding was provided to frontline services for women and girls affected by gender-based violence to deal with additional pressures that occurred during the pandemic. Scottish Women’s Aid divided the funding amongst local Women’s Aid organisations, including Women’s Aid East and Midlothian.
The objectives of the 100 days (Covid emergency) funding were:fund additional staff to respond to an increase in demand from victims of abuse for support servicesimprovements to organisations’ IT and digital resourceadditional training to allow services to be augmented so that people could quickly and easily access help.