Submitted on Monday 11th July 2016
Published on Thursday 21st July 2016
Current status: Closed
Closed: Saturday 21st January 2017
Signatures: 252
Sizeably increase and improve upon current funding for domestic abuse refuges.
Between early 2015 and '16, 30 refuges were forced to close as a result of inadequate funding. There are currently 272 refuges across the UK, sharing between them just £20 million of annual government funding. This lack of funding is, in part, responsible for 2 domestic female homicides every week.
Domestic abuse refuges save lives. But they are in dire straits; scarce government funding serves merely to 'patch up' issues which reemerge in exacerbated form each year. Refuges have excessively suffered from recent spending cuts, with 44% of services in 2015 operating without any reliable funding over the previous year. On just one day in 2015, 167 women and children were turned away from 129 refuges nationwide, with 23.27% of referrals in said year being declined out of financial necessity.
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