Extract from Consideration of Lords amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill - Apr 15
Friday, 16 April 2021 07:41
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
(Victoria Atkins):...There is a cross-party desire to see those
measures matched by equivalent provision in respect of
community-based support. This Government are alive to such calls.
Police and Crime Commissioners and others, already provide
significant community-based support to victims of crime, but we
need better evidence of the gaps in current provision and how they
might best be addressed. That is why the Government...Request free trial
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home
Department ():...There is a cross-party desire to see those
measures matched by equivalent provision in respect of
community-based support. This Government are alive to such calls.
Police and Crime Commissioners and
others, already provide significant community-based support to
victims of crime, but we need better evidence of the gaps in
current provision and how they might best be addressed. That is why
the Government have now committed to consult on the provision of
community-based support as part of this summer’s consultation on
the new victims’ law. That commitment to consult is backed up by
Lords amendments 5, 8 and 10 to 16. Lords amendment 5 will place a
duty on the domestic abuse commissioner to publish a report, under
her new powers in the Bill, on the provision of and need for
community-based services. Lords amendments 8 and 10 to 16 will
place a duty on tier 1 local authorities, with the support of their
domestic abuse local partnership boards, to monitor and report on
the impact of the safe accommodation duty on the provision of
community-based support in their area. Taken together with the
responses to our victims’ law consultation, those amendments will
ensure that the Government have all the information they need to
build on the strong foundations of existing community-based
services...
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