Women's lives at risk from changes to funding for refuges, say charities

Campaigners call government proposals to take short-term supported housing out of welfare system a ‘matter of life and death’The lives of vulnerable women and children will be put at risk by proposed changes to funding for refuges, abuse survivors and charities have warned.In little-publicised proposals, the government plans to remove refuges and other forms of short-term supported housing from the welfare system. Continue reading...