‘Lack of funding leaves south Asian domestic abuse survivors vulnerable’

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CHARITIES supporting Asian domestic abuse survivors are in a funding crisis with a lack of space in refuges and a shortage of trained frontline workers, experts have cautioned.

They said further services are at risk of shrinking or closing due to a dearth of financial support.

Research by the Refuge charity found that 85 per cent of frontline workers believe their community-based service is being impacted by insufficient funding. And 76 per cent of workers in the sector said their caseload had increased in the past 12 months.