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dc.contributor.authorSimmonds, Lesley
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-17T11:34:06Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-01
dc.identifier.issn0269-7580
dc.identifier.issn2047-9433
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/11512
dc.description.abstract

<jats:p>This paper follows on from earlier work in which I discussed the potential impacts of the local commissioning of victim services by Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in England and Wales. The introduction of this elected role and the devolution of responsibility to local PCCs 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’. However, these concerns gained momentum with the incoming Coalition government of 2010, and by 2014 local commissioning by PCCs had been implemented. This meant the previous mixed economy of victim services 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, has given way to the political appeal of a free market for all. In order then to explore the reality of this shift, a piece of empirical research was undertaken with voluntary-sector agencies in the far southwest of England. Essentially the research provides evidence that the issues raised in my earlier work have indeed come to fruition.</jats:p>

dc.format.extent181-199
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.subject8.1 Organisation and delivery of services
dc.titleThe impact of local commissioning on victim services in England and Wales: an empirical study
dc.typejournal-article
dc.typeJournal Article
plymouth.issue2
plymouth.volume25
plymouth.publication-statusPublished
plymouth.journalInternational Review of Victimology
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0269758018787938
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Users by role
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-04-23
dc.rights.embargodate2020-6-13
dc.identifier.eissn2047-9433
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-05-01
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