Domestic violence cases soar as funding is cut in Birmingham: http://birminghameastside.com/2017/10/16/domestic-violence-funding-cuts-birmingham/ Report by Wan Ulfa Nur Zuhra, Victòria Oliveres, Carmen Aguilar and Steve Carufel.

In October 2017 we reported on figures showing domestic violence “high-risk” cases in Birmingham had nearly doubled in the last 4 years, but the spending on domestic violence services by Birmingham City Council (BCC) hadn’t seen the same increase .

This was part of a national level investgation carried by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ). They found out that local authorities across England have cut their spending on domestic violence refuges by nearly a quarter (24%) since 2010, according to our new research.

The data was obtained as part of a nationwide investigation by TBIJ. They made freedom of Information requests to local authorities across England asing for information about the amount they spend on women’s refuges since 2010.

The data used for this specific report came from a FOI request answered by the Birmingham City Council. The file below show the information used by the Birmingham Eastside team to create the visualisation.

• XLSX: Domestic violence cases and expenditure on services

Both charts were designed using Datawrapper.

• Bar chart: Domestic violence cases deemed as “high risk” by the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference in Birmingham from 2013/14 to 2016/17.
• Bar chart: Birmingham expenditure on domestic violence services and projects, as a sum of the spending by both the Place and People's Directorates of the City Council from 2013/14 to 2016/17.

• The Independent: Women's refuge budgets slashed by nearly a quarter over last seven years
• Birmingham Post: Women told to go 600 miles to ORKNEY as Midland refuges were full
• Yorkshire Evening Post: Women's Refuge fund reduced in West Yorkshire as domestic abuse figures rise
• The Bureau Investigative Journalism: Revealed: Thousands of vulnerable women turned away as refuge funding is cut
• Channel 4: Women turned away from cash-strapped refuges