Additional bed spaces for women victims of violence

Country of Implementation

Austria

Description

Assurance of additional bed spaces for quarantine. Women’s shelters, whenever possible, allowed 2 weeks of quarantine in the primary months of the pandemic

Innovative aspect

Not a common practice in local associations before the pandemic

Duration of the measure

Temporary

Implementing actor(s)

WSS in cooperation with individual cities and communities

Type of organisation

WSSs

Source

Haller Birgitt, Temel Brigitte, Best Practice: Gewaltschutz im Zeichen von Covid-19, Oktober 2021