National domestic violence charity Women’s Aid has launched the results of their survey of the effects of the proposed cuts to domestic and sexual violence services.
The survey shows that:
- 60% of refuge services have no funding agreed from 1st April 2011
- 72% of outreach services have no funding agreed from 1st April 2011.
Two women every week in England and Wales are already killed by a former or current partner and proposed cuts will mean a significant reduction in lifesaving services for those affected by violence in the home.
Comparisons of this special survey with Annual Survey figures for refuge and outreach use for 2009/10 suggest that nationally over 70,000 women, and their children, might not be able to access a service after April 2011, putting more lives at risk.