Last updated by charlotte.lang@essex.gov.uk on Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Support Matters is the most comprehensive study to-date of the current landscape of service provision in response to child sexual abuse in England & Wales.
The research found waiting times for services for children who have been sexually abused have more than doubled since 2015. On average, victims/survivors, both children and adults, are waiting six months for much-needed support and one in nine support services hold waiting lists extending over a year.