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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Gove urged to protect domestic abuse services funding amid councils crisis

Bimingham Council House
Birmingham is among the councils to have issued section 114 notices, in effect declaring them bankrupt. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Victims and survivors of domestic abuse will be placed at risk if support services are cut due to the councils funding crisis, ministers have been warned.

The domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales, Nicole Jacobs, said on Tuesday that because local authorities were under no legal obligation to fund most such services, they faced being reduced or scrapped by councils facing acute financial pressures.

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