Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailLess than £1.5million of £76million promised to help domestic abuse victims during the coronavirus pandemic has been sent to the frontline. Labour said the money was “a welcome development, given the need for support to frontline services was urgent and vital”. But the Government has admitted only a fraction has been sent to where it is needed. Labour has now written to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding to know why only 1.6% of the amount earmarked five weeks ago to support victims in the outbreak has been handed out. “Those at risk cannot afford to wait.”A Government spokesman said: “The Government has prioritised those at risk of domestic abuse in this national health emergency.

Source: Daily Mirror June 16, 2020 12:40 UTC