Here's another idea to reflect on and ponder:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-10-16/a-system-at-breaking-point
Revealed: Thousands of vulnerable women turned away as refuge funding is cut
Survivors and support workers tell the Bureau of a refuge system at breaking point
Local authorities across England have cut their spending on domestic violence refuges by nearly a quarter (24%) since 2010, according to our new research.
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The Bureau’s survey of 40 refuge managers across England revealed that 95% of refuges surveyed have turned women away in the last six months, either because they have physical impairments, complex mental health needs, they had too many children with them or simply because there were no beds available.
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On average two women are killed by their partner or ex-partner every week in England and Wales.
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Last year Theresa May and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) announced a £20m pot to fund domestic violence projects. The 76 successful projects were revealed in a high profile announcement in February which the Prime Minister said had the potential “to completely transform the way we think about and tackle domestic violence and abuse”.
However the Bureau’s analysis shows that 50 local authorities received nothing, an equivalent of 15% of the adult female population.
Shropshire, for example, did not receive any of the DCLG funding. The county council has cut its funding to refuges by 48% since 2010.
Even in areas that were funded, the amount per head of population varies wildly, from the equivalent of £3.52 per adult woman in Cumbria, to just 11p in Kent.
and this one especially
Vital support services like child support workers, specialist provision for women from minority ethnic backgrounds and substance abuse workers have been reduced.
Those who are most vulnerable can be most affected by cuts, as service provision to those groups is more complex.
Marai Larasi of Imkaan, explained the importance of services tailored to black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) women. “Part of it is understanding different cultural nuances, issues around language but also autonomy. It really helps if you are being supported by people that understand the range of issues you are dealing with”, she said.
In East London, the Ashiana network runs three refuges with provision for BAME women, especially those fleeing forced marriage or “honour-based” violence. Housing services manager Pam Saleem told the Bureau: “Last year we lost funding for one of our refuges, the council decided they wanted to fund generic provision”, rather than specialist refuges.
All these people screaming that transwomen should have access to women's shelters, fail to acknowledge that disabled women, women with mental health needs, women with too many children, women with particular cultural issues and language difficulties are being turned away. The shelters can not provide the specialist services they need. Women and kids are being sent 600miles to get a place.
What happens if the single sex exemptions for shelter turns away someone trans, because they can't accommodate them and they prioritise a woman with kids? Are the activists going to jump up and down shouting transphobia then, and go legal on the shelters? Thus meaning that transwomen have to be given priority because they have mouthy friends who will endanger the very existence of the shelter otherwise?
Seriously? Trans people obviously need specialist services. If women and kids are having to go 600miles to get a space, then why isn't the money that will appear for a legal case simply being spent on a specialist shelter for transwomen?
I can almost guarantee we will get this 'queue jumping' privileged bollocks going on. Which hardly smacks of being the most oppressed in society.
If women and kids with particular special needs can't get in a DV shelter, then why should transwomen get priority over them?
Piggie back their shit. Get out women's message in doing so.