“No help at hand” is a report in today’s Society Guardian on how women with ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ (NRPF) who are trying to escape domestic violence are being prevented from getting safe space in a refuge.
… The reason … is simple: refuges depend for their survival on housing benefit, which women with no recourse cannot receive. So while refuges may want to help, the options are limited. …
… Paul Rowen, Liberal Democrat MP for Rochdale, has taken up the issue in the House of Commons after a trainee social worker compiled a report in September last year revealing that, at that time, 17 women were facing destitution in Rochdale alone. “It’s appalling that this is happening in the 21st century,” he says. “If there are a significant number of women in a small town like Rochdale then it is happening to other women throughout the country. The immigration system in this country is so rule-bound that it fails to take into account situations like this. We are missing the human dimension.” …
Full story at http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/23/immigrationandpublicservices
See Southall Black Sisters website for:
* Campaign to abolish no recourse to public funds leaflet http://www.southallblacksisters.org.uk/publications.html#nrcampaign
* How Can I Support Her? Domestic Violence, immigration and women with no recourse to public funds’ Resource Pack http://www.southallblacksisters.org.uk/publications.html#nrpack
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