Change worries women
PA Wellington The counselling condition attached to a $190,000 Government annual grant to women’s refuges has caused concern about whether confidentiality and safety will be maintained, according to the National Collective of Women’s Refuges’ co-ordinator, Ms Rose Ash. She has said from Blenheim that many women had called her from throughout New Zealand worried that the new provision would mean contact with their husbands. When the Minister of Social Welfare, Mr Young, announced the grant last week he said it was offered on the condition that refuges offered counselling services to the entire family — the abused partner, the children, and the abuser.
However, Ms Ash said refuges would continue to offer the same safe haven to women and children in danger, “I really want to make that clear.”
She said the problem was really a distinction between accommodation and offering appropriate referrals for counselling, a service refuges had always provided anyway.
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