Yet another way in which this policy is failing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45029275I remember my mother telling me that child benefit paid to the mother was introduced so that all women would have some money for their kids, because all too often fathers would withhold money from their partners. And here we are.
And the last line of the report is telling. Strange though it may seem, not all women want to 'flee domestic abuse', or not at that time. They may need support in managing how to stay, not least because housing benefit can no longer be paid to refuges, so those are closing and safe spaces are becoming fewer and fewer. The statement doesn't actually address the problem being raised here.
