Open Doors and ISVA Presentation

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Off street sex workers are fearful of reporting sexual violence for two distinct reasons: 1. Lack of English and concern about being understood. 2. Distrust of UK statutory institutions
Street sex workers • Notoriously reluctant to report sexual violence for many reasons: • Fear of disbelieve and criticism of their lives as sex workers. • Fear of withdrawal from drugs as most suffer chronic addiction. The likelihood of withdrawal whilst waiting to access medical and police assistance is a massive disincentive to undertaking reporting and forensics.
Page 1 and 2: Rising to the Challenge Improving r
Page 3 and 4: • In 2009/10 Open Doors delivered
Page 5 and 6: • During 2009 OD became aware of
Page 7: • Knowledge about services that c
Page 11: Referrals into the Open Doors ISVA
Page 15 and 16: Our challenge remains to gain the c
Page 17 and 18: 334 individual off street clients i
Page 19 and 20: And some of the things we know are

Open Doors and ISVA Presentation

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?