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uK nSwP: Good Practice Guidance
Introduction The Prostitution Collective in Victoria, Australia developed the first ugly mugs scheme in May 1986, using the term ‘ugly mugs’ to describe punters who become unreasonable and violent. They realised that circulating descriptions of ‘ugly mugs’ could alert sex workers to danger. The first schemes in the UK started in Birmingham and Edinburgh in 1989 and were run by sex work support projects. Since then, similar schemes have been adopted by many sex work support projects nationally. This booklet provides guidance for sex work projects about how to establish and operate an ugly mugs/dodgy punters scheme. It also aims to encourage good practice, especially in taking incident reports. Projects within the UK NSWP are autonomous, and we offer this guidance for you to draw on and to adapt to suit the needs of your own organisation and service users. We recommend that you inform your managing bodies about your ugly mugs scheme to ensure that it is compatible with organisational policies, such as, those on confidentiality, information management and governance. For example, in a primary care trust, inform the trust legal representatives/clinical governance; in a voluntary sector organisation, inform the board/management committee. terminology GPG 01: ugly Mugs and dodgy Punters The diversity of our membership is reflected in the broad range of language and terminology used by projects. We have tried to use language and terminology that is universally understood. Where there may be confusion, we have used alternatives and given explanations, which can be found in the glossary on page 17. We have used the terms ‘ugly mugs’ and ‘dodgy punters’ interchangeably. We anticipate that projects will use whatever term they prefer. ‘Attack’ is used throughout as an inclusive term to include physical assaults, sexual assaults, threats, intimidation and robbery.
Page 1 and 2: 01 uK networK of Sex worK ProjectS
Page 3: Contents GPG 01: ugly Mugs and dodg
Page 7 and 8: Good practice in running a scheme A
Page 9 and 10: ugly mugs report The ugly mugs repo
Page 11 and 12: Good practice in completing inciden
Page 13 and 14: Training and information training A
Page 15 and 16: Safeguarding prosecution Projects s
Page 17 and 18: Involvement in the criminal justice
Page 19 and 20: References and further information
Page 21 and 22: Glossary assailant The person who h
Page 23 and 24: aPPendix 1 Sample incident report f
Page 25 and 26: 5 VeHicLe detaiLS Car or vehicle in
Page 27 and 28: 8 injurieS and HeaLtH care Injuries
Page 29 and 30: aPPendix 2 Sample completed inciden
Page 31 and 32: 5 VeHicLe detaiLS Car or vehicle in
Page 33 and 34: 8 injurieS and HeaLtH care Injuries
Page 35 and 36: aPPendix 3 Sample edited ugly mugs
Page 37 and 38: to phone the police switchboard. Th
Page 39 and 40: aPPendix 5 Sexual assault checklist
Page 41 and 42: through the criminal justice system

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