A new report shows local authorities in the United Kingdom have hardly cared for women and children who have been victims of domestic violence as they face no option but to return to the perpetrators because of poor social housing offered to them.
The Guardian newspaper said in a report on Sunday that thousands of vulnerable survivors of domestic violence in England were accommodated in unsuitable homes that were filthy and lacked basic utilities.
The newspaper inspected one such house in north London where a 36-year-old woman and her two children had lived since two years ago when they fled violence at home.
The house, allocated to the women by a local council, was infested with mice, had holes as well as problems with damp and mould, the report said.
“My daughter got an ear infection in the old property, when she was six months, and I think…