SCOTLAND
Evening Times
Catriona Stewart @LadyCatHT
Columnist/reporter
SCOTLAND’S only child sexual abuse service for male survivors is struggling to keep up with demand.
Speak Out Scotland (SOS), based at Port Dundas, has just been awarded £146,595 from the Big Lottery Fund to help fund its work for the next five years.
But staff said their work is only the tip of the iceberg and the charity could be helping dozens of more men.
Julie Harkins, Project Development Worker, said: “It was really after the Jimmy Savile scandal broke that we started seeing more men come forward and now we also have the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry so the topic is being discussed and brought more into the public consciousness.
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