Victim Support in England and Wales

Mawby, Rob

doi:10.1177/0269758016649065

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“…Under the regime at the time of writing, Victim Support have to bid competitively at the local level for funding for their generic service for victims who may have experienced any crime, from the minor to the more serious. Although, as noted earlier, the Victim Support service in the current research had been successful in securing funding from the PCC, not all local Victim Support services were commissioned, as Mawby (2016) noted, So yeah it's a brave new world . .…”

Section: Evaluating Victim Services: Outcomes Vs Outputsmentioning

confidence: 78%

“…in some places we have done very well, in others there isn't a Victim Support anymore. Agency 7The loss of a local branch of Victim Support has been a blow to the agency, as well as for the pool of victims of potentially lessor crimes, for whom alternative support may be less clearly available (Mawby, 2016). Indeed, such gaps in provision are something that one could not have envisaged, given the huge efforts by government to ensure local coverage by Victim Support over the past 40 years or so (Simmonds, 2016).…”

Section: Evaluating Victim Services: Outcomes Vs Outputsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The impact of local commissioning on victim services in England and Wales: An empirical study

Simmonds

2018

International Review of Victimology

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The impact of local commissioning on victim services in England and Wales: an empirical study. This paper follows on from earlier work in which I discussed the potential impacts of local commissioning of victim services by Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) in England and Wales (Simmonds 2016). The introduction of this elected role and the devolution of responsibility to local Police and Crime Commissioners was said to raise a range of issues for both victims and the voluntary sector, given that agencies within this sector are major providers of support for those affected by crime. Before 2014 the approach to the funding of victim services was not particularly of concern, save for questions being asked in the 'audit culture' of the early 2000s, around the extent to which the government funded agency Victim Support could be said to be providing 'value for money' (House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts (2003); Mawby 2016). However these concerns gained momentum with the incoming Coalition government of 2010, and by 2014 local commissioning had been introduced. The previous mixed economy of service provision, via the largely centrally funded organisation 'Victim Support' as a 'national victims service', and an array of smaller and more financially independent victim agencies who had to bid for pots of funding much more competitively, gave way to a free market for all (Simmonds 2016) i. In order to explore the implications of this, representatives from a group of voluntary sector agencies in the far southwest of England were interviewed in order to see what their experiences, so far, have been.

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Section: Evaluating Victim Services: Outcomes Vs Outputsmentioning

confidence: 78%

Section: Evaluating Victim Services: Outcomes Vs Outputsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of local commissioning on victim services in England and Wales: An empirical study

Simmonds

2018

International Review of Victimology

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“…Commissioning limitations aside, there is little real indication of localised problems being brought to the forefront and, as we have seen, the genuine analysis of victims' real needs in this regard may have been impossible from the outset. Mawby (2016) argues that recent developments in the structure of supporting victims in England and Wales may have profound impacts on the development of victim rights across Europe:…”

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“…This paper sets out to examine the implementation of a local commissioning framework introduced for victim services in England and Wales by its government in 2012. Whilst discussion of the political and practical drivers behind the formation of this framework can be found in the recent work of Mawby (2016) and Simmonds (2016), this paper aims to go one step further by beginning to critically evaluate how the framework has been working in practice in its early years. In particular, the paper will explore the degree to which local service commissioners have undertaken systematic or meaningful assessment to ascertain the needs of local victims as a means of informing the commissioning process, and the apparent outcomes of that process as a result.…”

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Supporting victims of crime in England and Wales

Hall

2018

International Review of Victimology

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This paper will focus on how support services for victims of crime have developed in England and Wales since the advent of the 2010 coalition government of the United Kingdom. In particular, the discussion will centre around the development of a framework of locally commissioned victim service providers effectively replacing a previous model of central funding aimed largely at a single national organisation, the charity Victim Support. Both the conception and the implementation of this strategy by government and local actors-notably regional Police and Crime Commissionerswill be critically assessed in order to test government claims concerning the utility of such a system for victims of crime themselves. In so doing, it will be argued that in practice it has been difficult to discern how specific local needs can be identified or catered for under these new arrangements. The paper will also demonstrate a great deal of variance in the ways Police and Crime Commissioners have approached these tasks. Ultimately, it will be suggested that what is often touted as a general sea-change in favour of crime victims as a whole may in fact be grounded more in a neoliberal, market ideology. Local commissioning also, it is argued, represents a continuing prioritisation of certain victims of crime for attention by central government whilst keeping the support needs of the vast majority of 'more typical' victims of crime at arm's length.

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“…Victim Support in England and Wales was among the first victims’ organisations, emerging in the 1970s (Mawby ). From its inception, ‘victim support as an independent organisation utilising community resources and deploying volunteers was stressed’ (Gill and Mawby , p.77).…”

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The Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector: Concepts and an Agenda for an Emerging Field

Tomczak

Buck

2019

Howard J Crime Justice

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Volunteers and voluntary organisations play significant roles pervading criminal justice. They are key actors, with unrecognised potential to shore up criminal justice and/or collaboratively reshape social justice. Unlike public and for-profit agents, criminal justice volunteers and voluntary organisations (CJVVOs) have been neglected by scholars. We call for analyses of diverse CJVVOs, in national and comparative contexts. We provide three categories to highlight distinctive organising auspices, which hold across criminal justice: statutory volunteers, quasi-statutory volunteers, and voluntary organisations. The unknown implications of these different forms of non-State, nonprofit justice involvement deserve far greater attention from academics, policymakers and practitioners.

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Victim Support in England and Wales

Cited by 19 publications

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The impact of local commissioning on victim services in England and Wales: An empirical study

The impact of local commissioning on victim services in England and Wales: An empirical study

Supporting victims of crime in England and Wales

The Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector: Concepts and an Agenda for an Emerging Field

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