Evaluation of SURVIVE Sexual Violence Service Report

This study was undertaken on behalf of the Staffordshire Women’s Aid organisation who asked the research team to establish whether there continues to be a need for specialist service provision regarding sexual violence, specifically in the county of Staffordshire.

This proposed evaluation:

i) provides an overview of rates of sexual violence nationally and locally (across the county of Staffordshire) – to ascertain whether there is a need for specialist sexual violence support service provision in Staffordshire.

ii) carried out an evaluation of the sexual violence project Survive, which has been running for 9 years. The project has been funded so far, by the Big Lottery, but this funding ends in June 2019. The evaluation will be used to support Staffordshire Women’s Aid funding application for national and local funding from statutory services. Additionally, the evaluation will offer project managers of SURVIVE, an account of the strengths of the service and the extent to which service users’ needs are being met. It will also produce a series of recommendations as to what support staff and service users’ perceive would improve the service.