UK govt pledges £2 mn to help domestic abuse victims amid COVID-19 lockdown

UK’s Home Secretary Priti Patel on April 11 said in a press release that Home Office was working with charities and domestic abuse commission to provide up to  £2 million help to domestic abuse victims. Patel also assured that anybody who was at risk of abuse was still eligible to get help.  According to reports, in last week, UK's National Domestic Abuse Helpline h reported a 120 per cent rise in number of calls it received in a 24-hour period.

“I  am also providing up to £2 million to enhance online support services and helplines for domestic abuse so that anybody who needs that help and support can access that help and support. se services will be boosted from new IT provided by business, and in order to boost se services, we have secured support from Fujitsu to provide IT expertise to smaller domestic abuse charities to enable ir specially trained support workers to provide ir crucial services remotely.” Patel said in a press release. 

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£2 million support was under British government's new ‘national communications campaign’ which, in dition to helping those facing abuse, also aimed at aiding those who were "at-risk" of abuse. In dition, £2 million monetary support was an effort to reassure victims that y could leave ir house inste of suffering and that police and government was rey to help m. Patel while explaining furr said, “It will signpost to victims how y can access help and but also to reassure m that y can access support services and police are still on hand.”

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According to United Nations, an estimated 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced eir "physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence" or sexual violence by a n-partner at some point in ir lives. However, some studies have upped figures and asserted that up to 70 per cent of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner in ir lifetime. 

Im: AP

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