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SCOTTISH Labour warned yesterday that vital services aimed at tackling violence against women and girls have faced “dangerous cuts” from the Scottish government over the last year.
Figures obtained by Scottish Labour show that 92 per cent of these projects had their budgets cut in 2016 despite a rise of 21 per cent in domestic abuse incidents in Scotland last Christmas.
Research from independent experts at the Scottish Parliament Information Centre also found a real-terms cut of more than £1 million in Scottish government funding to tackle violence against women in the current financial year.
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
Susan Galloway talks to ASH REGAN MSP about her “Unbuyable” Bill, seeking to tackle the commercial sexual exploitation of women in Scotland