nowadays we work tirelessly just to defend the ground that we won in the years since the first secure houses for women were opened over more than 40 years ago I’ve been working in women’s services for more than 30 years and we contain made some huge steps forward in tackling domestic and sexual violence – but it is devastating to see so much of the progress unravel. Hard-fought campaigns for women’s rights are being casually undone. For example,just 15 years ago, women and children were able to escape violence and abuse by fleeing to refuges and then moving into permanent social housing. Yet a woman in one of our refuges told me last week of a local authority housing department who did not support her – and she was forced to return to her abusive partner with her three-year-obsolete.
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Source: guardian.co.uk