The Women’s Aid Domestic Abuse Report 2024: The Annual Audit, has been released and looks at the provision and uptake of domestic abuse services in England, alongside the experiences of women and children who use them.

The latest edition of Women’s Aid’s annual publication revealed that the network of specialist domestic abuse services is at risk of dismantling if the acute funding and commissioning challenges they are facing are left unaddressed.

Some of the key findings of the report include: 

Almost half (49.0%) of organisations surveyed had been running an area of their domestic abuse service in 2022-23 without any dedicated funding. 
Over a third (33.7%) reported short-term contract lengths as a key challenge faced with commissioned funding this year.
Over half (57.7%) of the organisations surveyed reported they were struggling to recruit for vacant roles at the salaries they can pay, due to increases in the cost-of-living.

To read the full report, please click here.