Outrageous. The start of the piece:
“The only support service in the country for male sexual abuse victims could be forced to close.
The National Male Survivor Helpline (NMSH) is funded entirely by the government but the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is to end the £250,000-a-year it has received since 2016.
Service users have said the NMSH, which is operated by Safeline, has been a “lifeline” for many victims of abuse.
The MoJ said its Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Line (RSASL) was available to offer free, confidential help to all survivors aged 16 and over.”
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Justice for Men & Boys 
“It just makes you think, society still doesn’t care about men who have been abused” Perhaps not society. But very clearly the Government in the form of the MoJ. And the cloak this is done under will be the Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy. For that strategy which is “mainstreamed” in government “hides” male victims and so what need of services for males? In fact it inverts what the Equality Act requires of public services in the Public Service Equality Duty. Public services are required to have data on the equality strands, including sex, and if there is underrepresentation to pay attention to the underrepresented group. In the case of Domestic Violence, Sexual assault, sexual abuse and domestic abuse the well documented underreporting by male victims the exact reverse is what happens. Rather than strenuous efforts to encourage males to seek help and to offer services to an acknowledged “underrepresented” group, males, they are ignored except by small voluntary services raising funds and awareness. For someone with deep pockets and good barristers cuts such as this would be cases for Judicial Review.
From years of links with various struggling and dedicated local charitable services I think the support they get from ordinary men and women shows its not “society” who doesn’t care but the “elite” salariat which control the vast public sector, and one of their favoured ideologies feminism in the VAWG Strategy.
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