THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - December 13, 2011
Support for male abuse victims
A NEW fund to support male victims of sexual and domestic violence is to be launched this week.
Lynne Featherstone, the equalities minister, told MPs £225,000 would be provided over two years to assist services "focusing explicitly" on men.
She said: "The Government recognises that men can be victims of domestic violence and takes this issue very seriously. "[The new fund] is in addition to the Home Office funding provided each year to the men's advice line, which provides support and signposting services for male victims, and Broken Rainbow, which provides support to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) victims."
Ms Featherstone's comments came as Karl McCartney, the Conservative MP for Lincoln, sought reassurances that all domestic violence awareness campaigns run by the Government would be "clearly aimed" at male both female and male victims.
Ms Featherstone said that was "indeed the case'' and used the example of a recent campaign aimed at both male and female teenagers being abused by their peers.
Mr McCartney said he welcomed the announcement of the new fund, which he said would bring much-needed support for the "victims of this deplorable crime''.
Last year, a report by the campaign group Parity claimed that 40 per cent of all domestic violence victims in the UK were men.
The details fo this have not been made available yet, but we can already say this goes nowhere enough to cover and support men in these issues. It would be good to find out what research etc was used to come up with this figure.
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