Ep.9 When the roof came down

The Tip Off

News, News & Politics

4.7 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ep.9 When the roof came down In late July I read a Facebook post that would send me on a three month journey- from town council steps, to bland hotels to dirty council flats- I followed the stories of women fleeing domestic violence only to be let down by the system designed to support them. Meanwhile, a team of journalists all across the country, dug into FOI data, pulled in local council funding bids and surveyed experts on the ground. Together we uncovered a country-wide crisis, with huge cuts to refuge funding and hundreds of vulnerable women turned away. WARNING: This episodes contains descriptions of domestic violence and strong language. If you need to talk to someone about domestic violence contact Women's Aid/Refuge free helpline on 0808 2000 247. If you are in immediate danger, call 999. Read all about it: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-10-16/a-system-at-breaking-point https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-10-16/new-entry https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2017-10-19/refuges-at-breaking-point-stories-from-around-the-country Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan Testimony voiced by: Emer O Connor and Stephanie Soh Music: Dice Muse and Komiku http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Komiku/Its_time_for_adventure__vol_3/Komiku_-_Its_time_for_adventure_vol_3_-_09_You_yourself_and_the_main_character

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0:00.0	Just a warning before we start. This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence and strong language and may not be suitable for everyone.
0:14.0	I'm not scared to die. I'm not scared, but I don't want to leave my son.
0:18.0	It's like someone's sticking a stic a sticking plaster on you year after year.
0:22.6	You know, when you're cleaning someone's shit off the wall
0:25.6	and sobbing on your knees, it's not my best moment.
0:28.6	Oh my coming here!
0:31.6	These women are described as the most vulnerable, the funerple.
0:34.6	He looked me dead in the eye and he said, I will do much worse to you than that.
0:43.0	I'm Maeve McLanagan, and this is the tip-off, the podcast where we look behind the scenes of some of the UK's best investigative journalism.
0:51.7	In the past, we've heard from some amazing journalists, Heidi Blake, Claire Newell,
0:57.0	Rebecca Minera. But as we start our second series, I wanted to tell you about a project that I've
1:04.0	been working on. It's a story of women fleeing domestic violence, only to find a safety net that is falling apart at the
1:13.5	seams. In late July, a friend pointing me to a message that had appeared on her Facebook feed.
1:22.3	It was a post that read, please help. We are seven women in a refuge in central London. Our ceiling has fallen in. The property is flooded. We have no electricity. There are eight young children here. Can anyone help us? Immediately it caught my attention. In fact, for the past couple of months or so, my colleague and I had been working
1:45.2	on the start of an investigation into domestic violence refuges all across England.
1:51.5	After reading that Facebook post, I sent a message to the woman that had written it. We're going to
1:56.9	call her Carrie to protect her identity. I said I was a journalist and I'd like
2:01.8	to talk to her and then I waited nervously to see if she'd reply. And she did. So on
2:08.5	on Monday morning in early August, me and my colleague Jasmine we raced across the city
2:13.5	to Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall and met her there. When we arrived, we spot a group of three women huddled against a wind on the steps of the Town Hall building.
2:23.3	You guys from refuge?
2:25.3	Yeah.
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