The impact of local commissioning on victim services in England and Wales: An empirical study
The impact of local commissioning on victim services in England and Wales: An empirical study
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英格兰和威尔士当地委托对受害者服务的影响：实证研究
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2018
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1.5
通讯作者：
L. Simmonds
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作者：
L. Simmonds
本文遵循从早期的工作，我讨论了潜在的影响，当地委托受害者服务的警察和犯罪专员（PCCs）在英格兰和威尔士。据说，引入这种选举产生的作用并将责任下放给地方预防和打击犯罪中心，会给受害者和志愿部门带来一系列问题，因为志愿部门内的机构是向受犯罪影响者提供支助的主要机构。在2014年之前，为受害者服务提供资金的方法并不特别令人担忧，除了在21世纪初的“审计文化”中提出的问题，围绕政府资助的机构受害者支持在多大程度上可以说是提供了“物有所值”。然而，随着2010年联合政府的上台，这些担忧得到了加强，到2014年，PCC的地方委托已经实施。这意味着以前通过主要由中央资助的组织“受害者支持”作为“国家受害者服务”提供受害者服务的混合经济，以及一系列规模较小，财务上更独立的受害者机构，他们必须以更具竞争力的方式竞标资金，已经让位于所有人的自由市场的政治诉求。为了探索这一转变的现实，我们与英格兰西南部偏远地区的志愿部门机构进行了一项实证研究。从本质上讲，这项研究提供了证据，证明我在早期工作中提出的问题确实取得了成果。
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.