Statistics

·        Each year there are 54,500 admissions to refuges.

·        145,00 women make contacts for help and support. 

·        On average Women’s Aid receives a call to their help lines (open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year) every 2 and a half minutes - that’s over 35,000 women a year.

·        Every year, one in ten women experience Domestic Violence and one in four suffer at some point in their lives. 

·        The number of Domestic Violence incidents reported to B.C.S. has more than tripled over fifteen years.

 

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