Witness wants to see a world where health and social care relationships are free of abusive practice.
Mission
Witness is dedicated to helping people who have been abused by health and social care workers and working to prevent abuse. We do this by providing a helpline and professional support and advocacy services for the victims and survivors of abuse and by campaigning for improvements in policy law and practice, conducting research and providing education and training.
We aim to
- Support survivors to seek justice
- Assist survivors to overcome their experience of abuse
- Reduce the incidence of abuse
- Decrease the isolation of survivors
- Increase survivors' confidence
What we want to see- The provision of comprehensive advocacy services across the U.K.
- Mandatory reporting and recording of incidents of abuse by professionals
- Meaningful user and survivor participation
- For health and social care services to acknowledge serious errors and to make a clear commitment to proper redress for victims
- Statutory regulation of counselling and psychotherapy
- Teaching on professional abuse and its prevention to be a mandatory part of formal health and social care training
- Effective, transparent and accountable complaints systems across all health and social care professions
- Substantial research into abuse by professionals
- Independent inquiries into serial and institutional abuse
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