Tackling gender-based violence
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Additional £5 million to cut waiting lists for support.
Frontline services for women and girls affected by gender-based violence will receive £5 million to deal with additional pressures that have occurred during the pandemic.
The funding will go to rape crisis centres and domestic abuse services to cut waiting lists, helping to ensure those affected can access the support they need more quickly. The increased support fulfils one of the commitments for the first 100 days of this government.
It will comprise approximately £4.5 million to be split between Scottish Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis Scotland, and a total of £500,000 for 12 other specialist support services and organisations.
Scotland announces £5 million in funding for women and girls subjected to gender-based violence
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Gender violence support groups receive £5m funding
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SCHOOLS in Dorset excluded pupils for sexual misconduct on a dozen occasions in just one year, figures reveal. Department for Education figures show Dorset schools excluded students 12 times for sexual misconduct in 2018-19 – two permanently and 10 temporarily. However, this was a decrease on the previous year, when there were 14. The exclusions in Dorset were among 1,972 sexual misconduct exclusions – which include incidents of sexual abuse, sexual bullying and sexual harassment – across England that year. Though a 13% drop on the year before, Rape Crisis said the number of exclusions will not show the true scale of sexist bullying and sexual violence being perpetrated in schools, particularly against girls.