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of Groningen, and the Sexual Abuse Support Centres of the Municipal Health Service in Amsterdam 709
and The Hague 710 .
Besides these examples, the so-called Dual-track or Multiple-track Team can also be cited, which operates
in Amsterdam and is also specifically geared towards sexual abuse. In this team, representatives from
various organisations work together to provide advice about the approach, in a broad sense, for tackling
sexual abuse. Each professional can put a question to the team about suspected child abuse. The basic
idea is that assistance must be provided along multiple tracks at the same time: to the victim, the (nonabusing)
parents, and the offender. 711 Parties involved in this include, amongst others, the <strong>Child</strong> Abuse
Counselling and Reporting Centre, the Youth Care Agency, the police, the <strong>Child</strong> Care and Protection
Board, as well as the institutions that offer assistance, which include Amsta, De Bascule, the Netherlands
Institute for Psychological Care and Addiction Care InGeest, MEE Amstel and Zaan, and PuntP. The
Korpsmonitor Kinderporno 712 states that in a number of police districts, collaborations with institutions that
offer assistance take place as a matter of procedure, but does not explicitly state what form these collaborations
takes. After being asked about this within the scope of this report, a representative from one
of the Sexual Abuse Teams from the Utrecht regional police force indicated that the police simply refer
victims of sexual abuse who are youths to the Trauma Centre of the Wilhemina Kinderziekenhuis (<strong>Child</strong>ren’s
Hospital of the University Medical Centre Utrecht). 713 According to the representative from the police,
this usually takes place as a result of interventions from the Youth Care Agency or one of the Christian
assistance organisations, such as Steps. The representative also indicated that victims of sexual abuse offences
in Utrecht are usually assigned a so-called JOSS-lawyer. 714 However, a structure for collaboration
with organisations that provide assistance is not included in the report on <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> arising
from the Korpsmonitor, which includes a proposal for creation of a national organisation to combat child
pornography and child sex tourism. 715
In addition to collaborative partnerships such as those stated above, a number of initiatives also exist
that aspire to a more far-reaching collaborative partnership, in which various experts intend to achieve
a complete provision of assistance under one roof. Two initiatives are described in the box below.
One of the examples cited in the report from the Health Council of the Netherlands concerns the
Multi-disciplinary Centre for <strong>Child</strong> Abuse in Friesland (in formation). The initiator, Fier Fryslân, states
that the aim is to achieve an integrated approach with various experts under the same roof. 716 The
care institution has announced that the team would have to be made up of experts from the <strong>Child</strong>
Abuse Counselling and Reporting Centre, the Domestic Violence Counselling and Support Point, the
709 www.gezond.amsterdam.nl/Geestelijke-gezondheid/Seksueel-geweld (viewed 22 August 2011).
710 www.denhaag.nl/home/bewoners/to/Regionaal-Steunpunt-Seksueel-Geweld-RSSG.htm (viewed 22
August 2011).
711 TMT, 2010.
712 Programme of Improvements in Tackling <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong>, 2011.
713 Verbal information, representative of one of the Sexual Abuse Teams from the regional police force,
Utrecht, 18 May 2011.
714 Juridische Opvang Slachtoffers Seksueel Geweld [Legal Support for Victims of Sexual Violence]
715 Programme of Improvements in Tackling <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong>, 2011.
716 Project: ‘Het mishandelde kind centraal stellen’ [Placing the focus on the abused child], Fier Fryslân, 2011.
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