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WOMEN’S AID INTEGRATED SERVICES
REFUGE ACCOMMODATION.
WAIS manages two refuges. One in the City and one in the County, for women
and their children who are experiencing and fleeing domestic abuse.
Zola refuge is in the City and is a BMER refuge that gives priority (when flats are vacant) to South Asian Women.
The flats are self-contained and in total we can accommodate 9 women at any one time and up to 15 children.
Any woman who is fleeing domestic violence and needs a safe confidential home can be asked to be referred
to Zola or Serenity by ringing our helpline on 0808 800 0340 or completing the referral form on our website.
Serenity refuge is in the County and women and their children
will be housed in one of 6 of our properties. They are all fully
furnished and some of the properties can house a woman and
up to 7 children.
Each refuge offers ongoing support to women and weekly house
meetings take place to meet individual needs.
Each refuge also employs a part time children’s worker who will
support children by carrying out support sessions; play sessions
and can support children to access education and nurseries.
Every woman that asks to be referred into refuge will
have to a complete an assessment and a risk assessment which we call a DASH RIC (The Domestic
Abuse, Stalking and Honour Based Violence (DASH 2009) Risk
Identification, Assessment and Management Model.
Zola refuge has specialist language speaking staff who speak
Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi Guajarati for any other language we can
offer an interpreter for either of our refuge services.
If you would like more information about how to make a
referral into either of our refuges or want to know about any of
our services please visit our website www.wais.org.uk or ring
the helpline.