The Guardian view on women’s refuges: they’re life savers | Editorial

The UK government’s plans to change funding for supported housing won’t work. Victims of domestic abuse need a national schemeMore than a million people, most of them women, reported domestic abuse to the police last year according to the latest figures from the ONS. The “hidden crime” is slowly starting to emerge from behind locked doors and curtained windows. All the same, it is estimated that no more than half of all offences are reported, while successful prosecutions