While the C-leader goes around the room, she says it is like we are in a kindergarten. But the tinted boxes and kodlåsen on each door to the rooms suggest that it is a different kind of business.
It is a secret place in Sweden, we encounter C-leader, together with the department head Bridgett London, which runs one of Sweden’s approximately 200 females and young.
seven women and 20 children are on site. They are on the excursion.
” We usually have some outings for the children and their mothers. It is important that they can come out and feel free, that there is something more than to be afraid, ” says Bridgett London.
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last year it was over 55.000 persons who contacted women’s shelters, of these, 94 per cent are women, according to a report from Unizon, which was previously called the Swedish women and tjejjourers association.
In Friday presented another budgetary priority of sek 45 million in order to stop the violence of men on women, of which 10 million goes to the National center for women’s welfare.
a further contribution to the achievement of equality. It is about 40 million to the country’s girl – and the women’s shelters, in addition to grundanslaget 100 million. The addition is roughly equivalent to a part-time job per women’s shelter in Sweden per year, according to the C-leader.
– this is The money that the Centre party has fought for in the budget negotiations. Just to Jämställdhetsmyndigheten, who will remain, is an important part of gender equality work in Sweden, “says Annie Lööf and continues:
” But you can’t just focus on an authority, you should work with Jämställdhetsmyndigheten must also complement the resources and efforts to all stakeholders working with women’s safety in the real world. This point of view, the Centre party had during the budget negotiations.
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Bridgett London says that more money is always welcome.
” I think it is much needed. Women’s refuges are living in a state of uncertainty around funding. All bets that highlights our situation and improve, so that we on the floor can support abused women and children, we gladly accept, ” she says.
if the Josefin Nilsson has the pressure increased on the refuges. This is according to the even this shelter.
“But we almost always have high pressure here and it happens that we can not accept women that we are not enough,” says Bridgett London to Annie Lööf when they are sitting in one of the home’s rooms.
in Addition to the money calls for the department head to national guidelines.
” Which shelter, we accept placements from very many various social services throughout the country. Then we sit in a unique position, we see how different it is being done around the country, ” says Bridgett London.
the protection and support of a våldsutsatt woman seeking can differ depending on where she lives.
– In the same case, it can also be very different to how different agencies assess and judge in the case. So, it should not be – that different bodies working against each other. It makes it very difficult for the individual vulnerable women and children, ” she says.
Together with the expertise should national guidelines be able to work off the ”tyckandet”, she believes.
– We would think that it would be positive for the children and women in rule of law, ” says Bridgett London.
from the assessments in these cases to what is considered to be an appropriate accommodation to the police and the courts work.
Annie Lööf believes that the issue of national guidelines is interesting and important.
” I shall take with me there to this something that we can push on towards the government. To ensure that there are updated guidelines that provide security for women, no matter what municipalities they come from. These women should not have different protection depending on which address they have, ” says Annie Lööf.