Funding for Women's Refuge (P.124/2014): Comments of Minister for Health and Social Services

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A decision made 5 September 2014:

Decision: MD-HSS-2014-0040
Decision Summary Title :	P124/2014 Funding for Women’s Refuge: Comment		Date of Decision Summary:	28/08/2014
Decision Summary Author:	Deputy Director Commissioning		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:
Written Report Title :	P124/2014 Funding for Women’s Refuge: Comment		Date of Written Report:	28/08/2014
Written Report Author:	Deputy Director Commissioning		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: P124/2014 Funding for Women’s Refuge: Comment from Minister of Health and Social Services
Decision(s): The Minister approved for presentation to the States Assembly her Comment on Proposition P:124/2014 Funding for Women’s Refuge
Reason(s) for Decision: The Deputy for St Martin has submitted a proposition to the Treasury Minister seeking to increase the value of an existing service level agreement between Health and Social Services and Jersey Women’s Refuge, by reinstating funding for 2014-2015 to levels that were in place in 2013. The reduction in funding for the existing SLA, negotiated during 2013 and signed by all parties in 2014, was to support the funding of an agreed business case to establish a Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Group to tackle growing concerns about domestic violence in Jersey, under which some of the services formerly delivered by the JWR were transferred. The transfer of funding to Home Affairs supported the creation of an IDVA role to take on the responsibilities that the JWR declined to retain through revision of the terms of the then current SLA.
Resource Implications: £ 70,000 (£20,000 in 2014 and £50,000 in 2015)
Action required: The Greffier of the States to be requested to arrange to present to the States Assembly the Comment of the Minister of Health and Social Services on Proposition P:124/2014 Funding for Women’s Refuge
Signature:		Position:
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):