The F word carries this piece today about (surprise, surprise) some rather distorted priorities from councillors in Croydon.
Croydon's rape and sexual abuse support centre is one of only two such centres in the whole of London, and yet it is still having its funding slashed by twenty seven thousand pounds.
You might, at this point, be thinking that this is unfortunate but fair enough - we all know that difficult budget cuts and testing times are ahead. But it's a little harder to swallow when it goes hand in hand with significant pay rises for the Tory councillors making the decisions.
The centre is asking for support to save its services:
The cuts for RASASC of £27,000 per year is the equivalent of supporting 2,700 survivors of sexual violence on our helpline, seeing 23 survivors face to face for one year specialist counselling or supporting 108 survivors through our Advocacy department from reporting their rape to the end of their trial. We need your help to save our services! Please email mike.fisher@croydon.gov.uk to voice your disgust at these cuts and speak for the thousands of London women this will affect. It will only take 5 minutes of your time but may stop the only Rape Crisis Centre in London from having to close our waiting list.
Perhaps this is a chance for WVON's readers and supporters to get involved and help out.
