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• Adva Executive Group
• Membership
• Administration
• Funding of the Strategy and Business Plan
• Finance Sub-Group
  • Terms of reference
  • Membership
  • Meetings
• Minutes of meetings

Adva Executive Group

The Executive Steering Group shall have the following terms of reference.

• To co-ordinate, oversee and monitor the implementation of the adva Strategy.
• To identify the funding needed to implement the adva Strategy and to act on behalf of all the partner agencies in securing and appropriately utilising the joint funding of the strategy.
• To identify what policy, training and service delivery issues are most appropriately dealt with at a local and a county level.
• To seek to identify how policy and the level of services can be improved so that the level of domestic abuse, especially repeat victimisation, is reduced and those affected by it receive adequate services.
• To guide the work of the adva Partnership.
• To prioritise the work to be undertaken in any given financial year.
• To identify funding sources and support agencies beyond the constituted partners who can add, either funding, other resources or support to the objectives of the partnership.
• To establish links to mainstream planning activity and oversee partner agencies contribution to delivering responses to domestic abuse within their mainstream employer and service commissioning plans, strategies and service provision.
• To oversee development of agency and cross-agency policy.
• To ensure the main agencies are taking on board the implementation of the strategy and that all are working to the principle of sharing activity to maximise services in line with the adva strategy and the Peninsula Plan for Domestic Violence and Abuse.
• To oversee and monitor the use of pooled adva budget.
• To set at least a three-year budget against the delivery needs of the strategy and business plan a Finance Sub-Group will be established working to the terms of reference.

Executive Membership

The membership of the Executive Steering Group shall be made up of senior representatives delegated to act on behalf of their organisation in relation to funding and policy matters:

Devon County Council

Devon and Cornwall Police

Devon Primary Health Care Trust – Commissioning Body and Provider Services

Safer Devon Partnership

Community Safety Partnerships

District Councils

Devon Childrens’ Trust

Devon and Cornwall Probation Area

Crown Prosecution Service

Devon Magistrates Court Service

CAFCAS

In addition the following organisations will hold observer status in their capacity as providers of dva services within Devon.

Exeter Women’s Aid

North Devon Women’s Aid

Domestic Violence Services South Devon.

Local DVA Forum Chairs

Administration

Devon County Council will provide administrative services to the adva Partnership.

Funding of the Strategy and Business Plan

The Strategy and Business Plan will set out budgets for the implementation of services to be undertaken by the Partnership. The funds to meet those budgets will be primarily provided and agreed via the Finance Sub Group, by the three core statutory agencies forming the partnership (DCC/Local District Authorities; PCT/Health and Police). In addition funding will be sought from various other sources including: central government funds; European Union Funding; other national, regional and local funding sources that from time to time may become available; contributions from the other members of the partnership.

Funds received shall be administered by Devon County Council. Insofar as the funds are available, and to such extent as the funds are available Devon County Council will be responsible to the Partnership for the procurement of services proposed by the Partnership.

In carrying out this obligation to the Partnership Devon County Council will apply their own procurement and standing order processes and the Partnership recognises that if Devon deem it  appropriate not to accept a risk on behalf of the Partnership it shall not be required to commit itself or the Partnership until after further discussion.

Finance Sub-Group

Terms of reference

The Strategy and Business Plan will set out budgets for the implementation of services to be undertaken by the Partnership. The funds to meet those budgets will be agreed by the adva Finance Sub-group.

The terms of reference of the Finance group shall be:

• To set an agreed budget for adva to meet the requirements of the vision and business plan
• To agree the methodology or process for sharing contributions from partner agencies – eg either by a formula arrangement or by shared commitment
• To set a budget that covers the period of each adva business plan. The current vision and business plan being for 2009-2011.

Membership

To be Chief Officers, or their nominated deputy/senior representatives who are empowered to make budgetary commitments to the achievement of the agreed adva strategy, from the following agencies:

• Devon County Council – to include Children and Families Directorate, and Adult and Community Services Directorate
• Devon and Cornwall Constabulary
• Devon PCT – Commissioning Body and Devon Provider Services
• Devon and Cornwall Probation Area
• District/City Council – one representative
• Chairperson of adva partnership

Meetings

The sub group will meet twice a year;

• December to agree the outline budget for the following financial year
• June to monitor utilisation of the budget and agree any amendments or changes.