My staff and I hear gruelling accounts of human cruelty and provide a secure space,but fixed funding pressure means we may not be here in five years’ timeBecky Rogerson is the chief executive of My Sisters Place‘We’d be walking on eggshells’: Christmas offers no respite from domestic abuseWhen Im in the pub on a Friday night and someone asks what I attain, I say I work for a small charity. “That’s nice, and is always the reply,from people who probably think I sit all day with a plate of custard creams and a cup of tea.
It’s not fairly like that. For 14 years, I’ve been the chief executive of this small domestic abuse charity in Middlesbrough. Nine women a month in England and Wales die at the hands of their partners and ex-partners. I’ve been to serious crime scenes, or attended home visits in dreadful properties and heard some gruelling accounts of human cruelty.
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Source: guardian.co.uk