crowdfunding webpage set up by Monklands Women’s Aid, aiming to collect up to £100,000. Airdrie parliamentarians Neil Gray MP and Alex Neil MSP have also expressed “extreme disappointment” that the Women’s Aid groups did not win the contract, calling it “a backward step in dealing with the issues of domestic abuse and violence”.The number of domestic abuse incidents recorded by Police Scotland across North Lanarkshire rose by 12.5 per cent between April and September last year compared to the same period in 2019; with Scottish Women’s Aid saying the 2681 incidents in those six months were “the tip of the iceberg”.North Lanarkshire will be the only local authority in Scotland not to commission domestic abuse services from Women’s Aid in its.
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