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Survivors' Guide to the Scottish Justice System in translation

Our new video resource 'Survivors' Guide to the Scottish Justice System' is also available in a variety of community languages in addition to the English and subtitled versions.

'Survivors' Guide to the Scottish Justice System' (overview here) - is for anyone who is thinking about reporting a sexual crime or who has already reported and their case is currently in Scottish justice system. The video includes interviews with key professionals and an overview of how to report and what you may expect at each stage of the process.

There is a subtitled version of the video for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing (overview here) and it is also available in Arabic (overview here), French (overview here), Polish (overview here), Slovak (overview here), Chinese (overview here), and Urdu (overview here).

Equally Safe

In June 2014 the Scottish Government and COSLA launched ?Equally Safe: Scotland?s strategy for preventing and eradicating violence against women and girls?.

This statement to welcome ?Equally Safe? has been jointly produced by key voluntary sector organisations working across Scotland to tackle gender inequality and male violence against women and girls. These organisations are Engender, Rape Crisis Scotland, Scottish Women?s Aid, Scottish Women?s Convention, White Ribbon Scotland, Women?s Support Project and Zero Tolerance.

The launch of ?Equally Safe? is an important step in taking forward work to tackle violence and abuse. We welcome the continued commitment to support interventions, as well as the explicit acknowledgement that preventing violence against women is dependent upon reducing gender inequality in the broadest sense. This strategy makes it clear that all sectors of society have a responsibility to actively work towards preventing male violence and that prevention and equality measures must be embedded across all sectors.

Survivors' Guide to the Scottish Justice System

Rape Crisis Scotland has produced a new DVD resource aimed at explaining the criminal justice process for survivors of sexual violence.

Survivor views on a future Scotland

As the Referendum approaches, Rape Crisis Scotland is keen to seek the views of survivors on what they would like responses to sexual violence to look like in a future Scotland. What needs to change?
What would really make a difference?

If you’d like to let us know what you think, please visit this short online survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TZSMSVG

This consultation comes in the context of debates around independence, and RCS is keen to ensure that survivors' views are represented in this debate. Rape Crisis Scotland does not hold a position on the outcome of the Referendum, and the results of our survey are solely intended to inform discussions with politicians and others on survivor priorities for a future Scotland.

The survey includes questions on three specific areas (the justice system, support services and public attitudes & culture) as well as a space for commenting on what respondents feel is the biggest priority in general - and any other comments they may have.

Rape Crisis Scotland will publish the results here on our website, and disseminate them via social media. We hope that in doing so we will highlight survivors' views for politicians on both sides of the independence debate.

The closing date for responses is Monday 30th June 2014.
If you have any questions about this consultation please email info@rapecrisisscotland.org.uk.