Extracts from Westminster Hall debate on Adult Survivors of
Child Sexual Abuse Sarah Champion (Rotherham) (Lab):...In parallel
with a public health campaign, the Government need to address the
fact that existing sources of information and support are patchy
and disparate. The Government could do more, in co-operation with
the specialist voluntary sector, to provide online resources about
the impact of abuse, and information about the support services
that are available, both locally and...Request free trial
Extracts from Westminster
Hall debate on Adult Survivors of Child Sexual
Abuse
(Rotherham)
(Lab):...In parallel with a public health campaign, the
Government need to address the fact that existing sources of
information and support are patchy and disparate. The Government
could do more, in co-operation with the specialist voluntary
sector, to provide online resources about the impact of abuse, and
information about the support services that are available, both
locally and nationally. This will necessitate cross-Government
working and marshalling existing online information from
police and crime commissioners, specialist service umbrella
agencies, and the Ministry of Justice’s own Victim and Witness
Information website. Survivors and professionals need to know where
they can source information and support; currently, there is just
no clear answer for them...
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for
Justice (Edward Argar):...I believe we are making good
progress, but there is much more to do. Since becoming the victims
Minister, as the hon. Member for Rotherham alluded to, I have made
it my priority to provide more funding to rape and sexual abuse
support services. I wished to do three things: the first was to
increase the amount of funding available, which we did by 10%. The
second was to address the sector’s calls for a multi-year funding
settlement, moving from one year to three years. The third, which
we continue to work on, was to simplify the process for those
organisations applying. The APPG’s report quite rightly highlights
the need to pay for counselling as a barrier to accessing support,
and I am happy to say that this funding ensures that victims of
rape and sexual abuse can access any of the centrally funded
support services free of charge in any of the country’s 42 police
and crime commissioner areas, regardless of whether they report the
crime. That is, of course, on top of £68 million of funding
to Police
and Crime Commissioners to support victims of
crime...
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Extract from Lords debate
on Devolved Administrations: 20th Anniversary
(Lab):...As mentioned, across England, there are now nine
metro mayors—all of them men—the London Assembly, Police
and Crime Commissioners, city deals, unitary authorities,
metropolitan districts, county councils, district councils, London
boroughs and, of course, the City of London. Since 2015, we have
also had English votes for English laws. I appreciate that we do
not necessarily want a one-size-fits-all approach, but we can
probably accept that we have gone too far the other way...
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