women's refuge

British

noun

social welfare a house where battered women and their children can go for protection from their oppressors

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Cookes earned the families' trust, seeking donations for a women's refuge and collecting money for the fake Lapland trip.

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In the end, the women discovered there was no Lapland trip and no women's refuge - although they had given Cookes donations of food, clothes and money.

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She moved into a women's refuge and the children moved with her.

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When her parents separated for good, she started living with her mother, at first in a women’s refuge.

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The Welcome Organisation's chairperson Jude Whyte said the charity was using a women's refuge as a "make shift" drop-in centre during the day instead of its former premises.

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