Decision details

Doncaster Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Service (DRASACS) is an independent charity that has been helping victims of sexual violence since 1987. DRASACS is able to provide free support services for people who have experienced rape or sexual abuse; counselling and an Independent Sexual Violence Advocacy (ISVA) service which offers practical help and support.

Doncaster Council and Doncaster NHS CCG successfully secured additional funding to support DRASACS through a joint partnership approach with the grant to the charity being passported through a single route - a section76 agreement.

To approve the transfer of £165,960 under a section 76 funding arrangement between Doncaster Council and Doncaster CCG for the services of Doncaster Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Service (DRASACS).

The funding is made up as follows:

One-off grant of £68,440 to be funded from the Non Recurrent Better Care Fund Earmarked Reserve allocated to the Place Plan. (ODR AHWB.006.2020).

Grants of £27,520 and £45,000 as agreed in the Mayor’s budget report dated 5 March 2020 for the period 2020/21.

£25,000 Better Care Fund approved as part of Complex Lives (ODR AHWB.017.2019)

Option - maintain current grant funding level.

This is not an option. As evidenced there is already a real risk that the outcomes for vulnerable group are not realised, where support is not available in a timely fashion to meet the needs of the population, with a consequence that patient wellbeing deteriorates or manifests elsewhere with high intensity need. Also, without additional financial resource an unacceptable wait time for treatment for a vulnerable client group will remain.