Keep Counselling Confidential campaign wins award

[ArabellaScott]

Well done to the Rights of Women.

Campaign of the year from the Sheila McKechnie Foundation.

'The Change

Led by a coalition of leading organisations working to end sexual violence, the #KeepCounsellingConfidential campaign led to a change in the law that gives greater protection to survivors’ counselling notes when reporting sexual violence.

In April 2024, the Government accepted an amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill that will raise the legal threshold for when rape survivors’ counselling notes can be requested by the police. This amendment received cross-party support and is a big win for survivors’ rights to privacy, justice and healing. '

https://smk.org.uk/awards_nominations/keep-counselling-confidential/

I once resisted an application from the police and they went to court, i had to fund a barrister to resist the application as lack of relevance which my organisation won.

However in several other cases the court ordered notes from a perpetrator programme, about a violent mans progress which demonstrated each time the report from the programme was wildly inaccurate.

the programme had gotten in to advocating for perpetrators, highly predictable, i said at the time.