{"id":1903,"date":"2017-09-28T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2017-09-26T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T13:00:25","slug":"mp-praises-vital-work-of-local-womens-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"The Vital Work of Women\u2019s Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has praised the &#8216;vital&#8217; work of staff at a local Women\u2019s Refuge.<\/p>\n<p>The refuge, based at a secret location in West Kent, accommodates women and their children who have experienced domestic abuse.\u00a0 For these families, the seven-room refuge is their only safe space.\u00a0 Run by Look Ahead Care Support and Housing and managed by Yvette Hazeldon, the refuge provides families the time and security needed to reintegrate into society.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, Ms Hazeldon briefed Michael about the high demand for accommodation in the refuge, adding that the nature of the demand has changed because social media enables perpetrators to locate victims more easily.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1899\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1899\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/s-Refuge-22-Sept-17-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"s Refuge 22 Sept 17\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/s-Refuge-22-Sept-17-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/s-Refuge-22-Sept-17-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/s-Refuge-22-Sept-17.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They reviewed the Government\u2019s work to help victims of domestic abuse.\u00a0 Despite record numbers of prosecutions and convictions since 2010, there are still two million victims of domestic abuse every year in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Michael told Ms Hazeldon that the Government will introduce a Draft Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill to bring to the justice system greater clarity about the impact of domestic abuse on families and encourage better response to the lifelong impact on children into adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018My office regularly deals with cases involving domestic abuse.\u00a0 This refuge provides a vital service in keeping families safe.\u00a0 We will work together to ensure the Government are taking the right steps to support victims.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has praised the &#8216;vital&#8217; work of staff at a local Women\u2019s Refuge. The refuge, based at a secret location in West Kent, accommodates women and their children who have experienced domestic abuse.\u00a0 For these families, the seven-room refuge is their only safe space.\u00a0 Run by Look Ahead Care Support and Housing and managed by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1903\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Vital Work of Women\u2019s Refuge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[638,532,639,497,640,76,637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}