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Sexual Assault Referral Centres

  • St Mary's Centre
    St. Mary's Centre offers high quality, comprehensive and co-ordinated forensic, counselling, and medical services to males and females in Greater Manchester who have experienced rape or sexual assault, and their supporters.
  • The Lancashire SAFE Centre
    The Lancashire SAFE (Sexual Assault Forensic Examination) Centre provides forensic examinations, counselling and comprehensive support services for women, men and children of all ages who make a complaint of rape or sexual assault.
  • Star Project (SARC)
    A free support service for females and males aged 14 and over, offering counselling, emotional and practical support throughout West Yorkshire.
  • The Havens (SARC)
    The Havens are specialist centres in London for people who have been raped or sexually assaulted.

Nursing and Forensic Links

  • Skills for Health
    Healthcare Professionals Working In Police Custody Setting
  • Care and Evidence
    Promoting effective care for, and collection of best evidence from, people who have been sexually assaulted.
  • International Council of Nursing
    Advancing nursing and health world wide.
  • The Nursing and Midwifery Council
    The core function of the NMC is to establish standards of education, training, conduct and performance for nursing and midwifery and to ensure those standards are maintained, thereby safeguarding the health and wellbeing of the public.
  • The Royal College of Nursing
    Representing nurses and nursing, promoting excellence in practice and shaping health policies.
  • The International Association of Forensic Nurses
    The international voice of forensic nursing.
  • The Forensic Science Society
    The Forensic Science Society is a dynamic, forward thinking organisation that is dedicated to advancing the practice, study and standing of forensic science nationally and internationally and facilitating communication and collaboration among forensic professionals.
  • The Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine
    The FFLM is a charity set up to develop and maintain the highest possible standards of competence and professional integrity in forensic and legal medicine.
  • The Forensic Science Service
    The Forensic Science Service is a leading provider of analysis and interpretation of evidence from crime scenes.
  • British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
    The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV - BASHH - was formed in 2003 through the merger of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases (MSSVD) and the Association for Genitourinary Medicine (AGUM).
  • The Society of Sexual Health Advisors
    A professional organisation for Health Advisers working in departments of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Sexual Health.
  • Guy’s and St Thomas’ Modernisation Initiative Sexual Health Services
    A major initiative to modernise health services in three key areas in Lambeth and Southwark, making improvements to kidney disease, sexual health and stroke services.
  • East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit
    Established in 2001 and situated at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, the Forensic Pathology Unit combines high class research covering many aspects of forensic medicine and science with a forensic pathology service provision to the East Midlands and many other national and international organisations.

Other Support Agencies

  • Victim Support
    Victim Support is the independent charity which helps people cope with the effects of crime.
  • Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit
    CWASU, originally The Child Abuse Studies Unit, was established in 1987 by two full-time staff of the then Polytechnic of North London - Mary MacLeod and Esther Saraga.
  • The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)
    The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network is America's largest anti-sexual assault organization.
  • Childline
    National Child Charity.
  • The National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
    Help for children and teenagers.
  • Rape Crisis England and Wales
    Rape Crisis (England and Wales) provides co-ordination for the national network of Rape Crisis Centres across England and Wales.
  • Respond
    Supporting people with learning disabilities, their families, carers and professionals affected by trauma and abuse.
  • The Calm Zone
    A helpline for men under 25 years old.
  • Brook Advisory
    Free confidential sex advice and contraception for young people.
  • Crimestoppers
    Call anonymously with information about crime.
  • Samaratins
    Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.
  • The Roofie Foundation
    The Roofie Foundation is Britain’s (and Europe’s) only agency dealing with the issues surrounding Drug Facilitated Sexual Abuse (DFSA) through drink spiking.
  • The Poppy Project
    The POPPY Project was set up in 2003. It is funded by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform (reporting to the Ministry of Justice) to provide accommodation and support to women who have been trafficked into prostitution. It has 35 bed spaces in houses throughout London.
  • Counselling Directory
    This is a very informative, comprehensive guide to counselling as well as a search directory.

Legal Links

Police Links

Information on Rape and Sexual Offences

Other Websites

  • Drug Watch
    DrugWatch.com is a comprehensive Web site database featuring extensive information about thousands of different medications and drugs currently on the market or previously available worldwide. .
  • Forum for preventing deaths in custody
    The aim of the Forum is to identify learning opportunities arising from deaths across the various custodial sectors, to prevent future deaths.
  • Male Survivor
    Overcoming sexual victimization of boys and men.
  • The Survivors Trust
    Supporting specialist services for survivors of rape and sexual abuse.
  • Minnesota Centre Against Violence and Abuse
    Successfully Investigating Acquaintance Sexual Assault : A National Training Manual for Law Enforcement.
  • World Health Organisation
    WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system
  • Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance
    Resources for patients and their families