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<p>The Department does not hold centrally the number of women's refuges that have
closed since <a target="_blank">2010.</a></p><p>We are currently consulting on the
Future Delivery of Support to Victims and their Children in Accommodation-Based Domestic
Abuse Services closing on 2 August. The proposals for a statutory duty will require
local authorities to convene a Local Partnership Board. Local Partnership Boards will
be responsible for robustly assessing need for support for victims and their children
in safe accommodation, developing, agreeing and publishing an area-wide Domestic Abuse
Strategy, ensuring local commissioning of support services is in line with this to
meet the diverse support needs of victims and their children and report to central
Government on progress.</p><p>It is our intention that the proposals for a statutory
duty, subject to the outcome of the public consultation, will form part of the Domestic
Abuse Bill at a later stage.</p>
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