The long overdue announcement of the Safe Places Emergency Accommodation grants\u00a0is welcome, but falls critically short of national demand and is no substitute for adequate funding in next week’s Budget, Greens Senate Leader Larissa Waters said.
\n\u201cThis funding is a fraction of the money needed to ensure women and children fleeing family violence have somewhere to go and get the support services they need,\u201d Senator Waters, Greens spokesperson on Women, said.
\n\u201cAnnouncing 700 new crisis places which the government contends will house 6,000 women and children nationally, when its own data shows almost 10,000\u00a0survivors were already turned away from crisis accommodation pre-Covid, means the\u00a0government is condemning a third of women and children to a choice between violence or homelessness.
\n\u201cIncreased demand throughout Covid has meant Queensland Women\u2019s Legal Service hasn\u2019t been able to answer 50% of its incoming calls.\u00a0 Much of the \u2018emergency\u2019 funding announced by the government to address increased demand on Family and Domestic Violence services in March is yet to reach the bank accounts of frontline services.
\n\u201cFunding for crisis accommodation and support services for victim-survivors has never been more critical. Yet services have been waiting months for the support promised by this government, and made clear that much more is needed.
\n\u201cThe Greens support the sector’s calls for a significant increase in funding to fix the domestic and family violence crisis. Next week\u2019s Budget must fund all frontline services needed to keep all victim-survivors of violence safe, and effective primary prevention,\u201d Senator Waters said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The long overdue announcement of the Safe Places Emergency Accommodation grants\u00a0is welcome, but falls critically short of national demand and is no substitute for adequate funding in next week’s Budget, Greens Senate Leader Larissa Waters said. \u201cThis funding is a fraction of the money needed to ensure women and children fleeing family violence have somewhere … Continue reading “DV Funding Leaves a Third of Women At Risk”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}