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

Legal aid cuts denying vulnerable women access to justice, says thinktank

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Legal aid budget cuts have created advice ‘deserts’, say experts. Photograph: PrathanChorruangsak/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Vulnerable women in England and Wales, including survivors of domestic and sexual abuse, are being denied justice because of cuts to the civil legal aid budget, a thinktank has said.

The Women’s Budget Group says a decade on from major changes to legal aid, women have been disproportionately affected, leaving them without essential support to fight discrimination, violence and housing insecurity.

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