Welcome to another week.
The UK Home Office has published a list of support services for adults and children affected by domestic abuse in England and Wales.
The page offers the details of organisations tackling domestic abuse including services supporting the LGBTQ, religious, Black and Middle Eastern communities; as well as support for children, parents experiencing adolescent violence, those without settled status in the UK, and the elderly.
The list is very good in that it covers several kinds of abuse such as sexual assault, Female Genital Mutilation, forced marriage, economic abuse, stalking, honour based abuse and technological abuse.
There is also a dedicated section for people who don’t have settled status in the UK, to apply for settlement and access to benefits.
The section says:
“If your relationship with a British citizen or someone settled in the UK has broken down because of domestic abuse you may be able to apply for settlement as a victim of domestic violence.
The destitution domestic violence concession provides help if you are in the UK on a temporary visa as a partner, your relationship has broken down because of domestic violence and you have no money to support yourself.
The destitution domestic violence concession offers domestic abuse victims 3 months’ leave outside the immigration rules with the ability to apply for access to public funds.
This provides the opportunity to gain a temporary immigration status independent of the abuser and to fund safe accommodation, where victims of domestic abuse may consider applying for indefinite leave to remain or deciding to return to their country of origin.”
The page also offers information on how to get welfare benefits and housing advice, and access to support from your local job centre. The page explains that even if a job centre is closed, staff will still meet vulnerable people including those fleeing domestic abuse.
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The usual “support “given by the “authorities” for victims of domestic abuse is to order social workers to snatch their babies and young children and via biased family courts put them in foster care or forced adoption .The fostering and adoption agencies proudly publish the millions of £s they make out of this annually so “cheers all round ” !
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But the government need to make sure that domestic abusers, i.e. narcissists,highly manipulative individuals who tricked us into relationship pretending they’re decent, to use, isolate then physically psychologically & threateningly abuse,are put in prison with proper long sentences-it’s no good saying ‘oh the victim has to go to support services’!!!! the perpetrator has to be taken to task and put behind bars
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Instead of helping my 3 grandchildren off my vulnerable daughter who was violently coerced and attacked by her partner who I constantly reported to social workers,they ignored me,they knew his violent history and how vulnerable my daughter was,yet they allowed him in the family home,the children at risk of harm,the result was my daughter having her children taken and forcibly adopted when it reached crisis,they left my daughter and children at risk of harm yet I got the blame that I failed to protect, they didn’t want me to have my grandchildren and painted me in a bad picture with no evidence,the lies in the family court to cover their backs made me loose those kids forever.
Where was the help 3 years ago?
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