Author Topic: Good news re refuges  (Read 620 times)


ProfessorDavey

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Re: Good news re refuges
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2018, 05:39:25 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/09/plans-to-remove-womens-refuges-from-uk-welfare-system-dropped

Thank goodness.
I agree - this was a big issue for a refuge near me, with our ex MP heavily involved in the campaign to get the proposed changes scrapped.

Steve H

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Re: Good news re refuges
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2018, 07:18:29 AM »
Only under a Tory government would it ever have been contemplated.
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