Give Me Shelter – call on the Government to end a domestic violence scandal

Campaigning is at the heart of what we do and our editorial investment allows top journalists to shine a light into dark corners. This year, in a campaign against domestic violence The Sun calls on the Government to end a domestic violence scandal that shames the UK — by reversing the closure of refuges for women

Ministers had backed The Sun’s Give Me Shelter campaign to give the vital refuges a long-term funding guarantee with ring-fenced cash.

Women’s refuges face the threat of closure despite The Sun’s campaign to ring-fence cash

But new plans which would reclassify domestic abuse refuges as “short term accommodation” and leave them requiring funding top-ups from local authorities from 2019 threaten their future again.