Thread.
I wrote to the panel to add the voices of women in Surrey Refuges to this but apparently it was not as powerful as the 3 men who complained

https://twitter.com/_Lisa_Townsend/status/1502619931438993418

1. Gender neutral services do not work for women who have suffered #DomesticAbuse #sexualassault. A thread about a woman who stayed at one of our refuges and her experience
*posted with permission 2. Eleanor (not real name) reached out for help to a service for victims of #DomesticAbuse. Her male advocate met her in person. He said in a meeting that she was flirtatious. She immediately felt like she had done something wrong.

A thread of what I've seen change for families living in refuges in the last 11 years, since I started working there. Remember, these families are displaced and vulnerable because they are fleeing life-threatening domestic abuse.
1. Housing - families used to go straight to permanent social housing from refuge, the rent was fully paid by housing benefit. Now, after 6 months in refuge they may end up in B&B or in short term rented housing. Often, the accommodation they are eventually placed in is not fully covered by housing benefit