{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-support-local-authority-strategies-and-annual-reports-regulations-2021/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-support-local-authority-strategies-and-annual-reports-regulations-2021/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/990",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Abuse Support (Local Authority Strategies and Annual Reports) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-support-local-authority-strategies-and-annual-reports-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Content of a section 59 report",
  "text": "A section 59 report must include the following content—\n(a) confirmation that the relevant local authority has appointed a domestic abuse local partnership board;\n(b) information in respect of the membership of the board and how often it convenes;\n(c) evidence that the relevant local authority has undertaken an appropriate assessment of the need for accommodation-based support by, in particular—\n(i) setting out when the assessment was carried out;\n(ii) setting out the methodology employed in conducting that assessment; and\n(iii) providing details of the result of that assessment;\n(d) evidence that the section 57 strategy—\n(i) is in place and operating effectively;\n(ii) was published in accordance with Part 2 of these Regulations; and\n(iii) supports victims of domestic abuse to access services within the relevant local authority’s area;\n(e) evidence that the relevant local authority’s commissioning decisions have been informed by—\n(i) the assessment of need referred to in sub-paragraph (c); and\n(ii) the section 57 strategy;\n(f) evidence relating to the disbursement of funding set against the delivery objectives set out in the section 57 strategy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Within the meaning of section 58 of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/990/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:09:27.612059+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}