Increase support for refuges for victims of rape and sexual abuse
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Conservative Party Manifesto 2019, p.19We will increase support for refuges and community support for victims of rape and sexual abuse.
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- This is a promise to enhance government backing for safe accommodation for people who have suffered rape or sexual abuse.
- The Domestic Abuse Bill, introduced on 3 March 2020, seeks to “place a duty on local authorities…to provide support to victims of domestic abuse and their children in refuges and other safe accommodation”.
- The bill, which aims to increase support for refuges, is on its way to becoming law, so this policy is ‘in progress’.
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