Support for Victims and Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

The Home Office is seeking to award grant funding to non-statutory sector organisations in England and Wales working across a large geographical area to provide support to victims and survivors of child sexual abuse (SVSCSA). This follows the success of the SVSSA fund administered during 2016/17 financial year.

For 2017/2018, £4.7m has been provided proportionally to all 43 Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to administer to local provision for supporting victims. We know that this funding stream will not be suitable for some organisations that work with victims and survivors across a wider geographic area, and therefore may find it difficult to bid successfully to Police and Crime Commissioners.

Therefore, we have withheld £600k specifically to allow for voluntary organisations to submit a proposal for this purpose for 2017/2018, and if successful, they will be allocated funding centrally via a Grant Agreement from the Home Office. Organisations wishing to apply must operate over a large geographic area, which must, as a minimum, be 3 PCC areas.

While there will not be a formal cap placed on the amount an organisation can bid for, we expect all bids to be scalable. More details about scalability will be made available in the published documents.

The process leading to the award of the grant will be administered using Crown Commercial Services eSourcing portal. To take part in this grant funding opportunity please see the notice below which provides important instructions for registration on the portal.

Please read all information in this notice carefully. Please also find attached guidance for using the eSourcing portal.

On successful registration on the eSourcing portal you should request documents for the fund, which will include application guidance, by emailing SVSSA@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk. Applications for the fund will be submitted via the eSourcing portal only.