With the UK government planning to change funding for women’s refuges, we’d like to hear your experiencesAccording to campaigners, vulnerable women and children will be put at risk after the Department for Communities and Local Government set out plans to take away the entitlement to housing benefit from women using refuges. Survivors of domestic abuse and charities have warned that the plans to remove refuges and other forms of short-term supported housing from the welfare system, mean women will not be able to pay for their accommodation using housing benefit, the last guaranteed source of income available to refuges. On average, housing benefit makes up 53% of refuge funding. We also want to hear from those who work in refuges about your concerns and any measures you are putting in place now. You can share your experiences, anonymously if you wish, using our encrypted form below.

Source: The Guardian November 28, 2017 15:11 UTC