Overview
- The uplift is expected to support about 4,900 additional households and builds on roughly £480 million already pledged over three years, alongside nearly £500 million for the Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation Duty.
- Support includes places in refuges or confidential locations as well as Sanctuary Schemes that add home security such as lock changes, window locks and alarms.
- The government says the wider strategy will require every police force to employ specialist rape and sex‑offence investigators and create covert online units, backed by nearly £2 million for specialist officers.
- Proposals also include expanding Domestic Abuse Protection Orders to enable curfews, electronic tags and exclusion zones, with breaches carrying penalties of up to five years in prison, and widening Clare’s Law to cover stalking and sexual assault histories.
- Ministers cite a fully funded package that also directs £550 million over three years to victim support in the justice system, while opposition figures question the scale of new money, calling the £2 million for online squads insufficient.