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Women and Children Fleeing Domestic Abuse Latest Victims of Wall Government's Cutbacks |
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9 March 2010
NDP calls on the Wall Government to reinstate funding for the Domestic Abuse Outreach Program in Saskatoon and to expand the service across the province.
NDP MLA Pat Atkinson criticized the Wall Government today for Justice Minister Don Morgan’s misguided decision to cut provincial funding for the Domestic Abuse Outreach Program (DAOP) in Saskatoon.
“DAOP workers provided emergency frontline support and services for women and children fleeing violent domestic abuse in Saskatoon,” Atkinson said. “For the Wall Government to cut DAOP without any consultation and no consideration as to how these services would be provided in the absence of DAOP is unacceptable. The interim measure to fund only one social worker position came after the decision to cut DAOP and is simply not enough,” said Atkinson. |
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