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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Madeline Link

Tough times: homeless women offered car park for safety

Minister for Homelessness Rose Jackson at the Stockton Centre in 2022. Picture by Simone De Peak

WOMEN and children in Newcastle are being offered a car park to sleep in overnight, as frontline services are forced to find innovative ways to provide respite from domestic violence and homelessness.

Minister for Homelessness Rose Jackson said the circumstances that necessitate women and children sleeping rough in cars is "not acceptable".

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