In this video, Elisa Pack, a Senior Service Delivery Manager for Victim Support in Yorkshire, talks to us about the organisation and the services that they provide.
In 1972, members of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) in the Bristol area set up the first Victim Support project in England and Wales. Similar schemes then spread throughout the UK. These groups later joined forces and became the National Association of Victim Support Schemes, or Victim Support for short. Victim Support has grown to become the oldest and largest victims’ organisation in the world and last year offered support to more than one million victims of crime.
Funding is via Police and Crime Commissioners or through fund-raising from the public. The government also funds a national hotline telephone service, as well as the Witness Service at the Crown and Magistrates’ Courts, delivered by Citizens Advice. Support from Victim Support is provided, free of charge, through phone calls or visits and is delivered through trained staff and volunteers who are based in local offices around England and Wales.
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