Voluntary Organisations: Domestic Violence
Cabinet Office
Written answers and statements, 22 June 2009
Kerry McCarthy (Assistant Whip (funded by HM Treasury); Bristol East, Labour)
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent representations her Department has received from specialist voluntary sector organisations dealing with violence against women on the future funding of that sector.
Angela Smith (Minister of State (Third Sector), Cabinet Office; Basildon, Labour)
Ministers meet a wide range of third sector organisations, including women's groups and the issue of sustainable funding has been key to these discussions. That is why the Office of the Third Sector has been working closely with other Government Departments, in particular the Government Equalities Office, on developing a long-term and sustainable Government engagement strategy with the violence against women third sector. Through the Government's National Programme for Third Sector Commissioning we are engaging with local authority and other public sector commissioners on how to improve practice towards the third sector.