Coronavirus: where’s the help for domestic abuse victims during lockdown?
Behind closed doors: abusers could be having the time of their life in the lockdown. What is the Tory government doing to protect victims?
Labour’s new Shadow Home Secretary is right on this.
But let’s not be too praising just yet; there has been a lot of concern about domestic abuse victims in the media, after the lockdown was announced. And for a very good reason.
After all, it was – potentially, at least – locking victims in with their abusers for periods of weeks at a time.
The “pressure cooker” effect has created increased demand for charity aid, with helplines and online advice sites raising concern.
Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, has said victims of domestic abuse and child sexual abuse have not been forgotten – but she appears to have done nothing to help them.
What are they supposed to do?
Organisations providing domestic abuse support services during the Covid-19 crisis must get an emergency financial package from the government, the new shadow home secretary has said in his first intervention in the role.
Nick Thomas-Symonds, who was appointed to the shadow cabinet by the new Labour leader Keir Starmer on Sunday, has written to his Conservative counterpart Priti Patel to request funds for organisations that run “frontline” domestic abuse services, as well as to turn underused hotel chains and university halls into emergency accommodation.
Source: Labour urges emergency aid for domestic abuse services | Society | The Guardian
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My heart truly goes out to anyone trapped in this situation right now. Work, or even the school walk/run or shopping trips would be a welcome reprieve to what goes on behind closed doors. Now, for the victims and their children, there is nowhere for them to go or run to :-(