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The legal threat is understood to have come from a Rise service user. The committee also received a report which said that a cross-party working group should have been set up in 2018 to oversee the commissioning process – but this never happened. Even if it had been set up, councillors would not have been involved in evaluating the contract bids and, the committee was told, procurement law required councils to select the best tender. The report said: “Awarding public contracts is ti...

Senior councillors shared their shock when the situation was raised at a budget meeting. And they promised to look into the decision that will lead to Rise being replaced by Victim Support and the social housing provider Stonewater. Rise has run refuge and helpline services in Brighton and Hove for the past 26 years. Domestic abuse survivors put together a website and started a petition which was signed by more than 20,000 people in just six days. Last week, councillors were told in...

Protestors carrying a banner for Rise during a previous demonstration SURVIVORS of domestic violence have been left "devastated" after a charity that has helped vulnerable people for more than 25 years lost a £5 million contract. A petition has been started after Rise lost its contract with Brighton and Hove City Council, East Sussex County Council and the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner during a retendering process. Within 24 hours of the petition being launched on Saturday, it ha...

A BELOVED father who died with coronavirus is one of the first names to be added to a memorial quilt honouring people from Brighton and Hove who have died during the pandemic. John Goddard, 94, lost his life to the “dreadful” virus this winter and is one of the first people to have his name sewn onto the fabric, with hundreds of others yet to follow. The project aims to pay tribute to people from the city who have died with Covid – currently numbering 333 – using the help of volun...