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Require urgent or immediate help?

Our service can help you if you have recently experienced sexual abuse of any kind. But if you require urgent medical care, or wish to report an assault, you can do so by following the guidelines presented on this page.

If you are in need of urgent medical care or attention, please call 999 immediately and ask for an ambulance, or go straight to your nearest Accident & Emergency department.

This section of the website is for those who have recently been sexually assaulted. 

There are sections on reporting to the police, attending Sexual Assault Referral Centres and different ways of receiving medical care.

If you feel ready to receive support from others, please visit the Our Services page to get a sense of which service is right for you.

Medical Care

Examples of needing urgent medical care would be severe pain, bruising or bleeding.

If you are unsure of the service you require but it is NOT an emergency please dial 111 now.

If you have been recently assaulted you may need medical care or attention.

This page has been designed to provide information on relevant services in the East Kent area.

If you are not in the East Kent area, there are links provided to help you find the services closest to you.

Services in the vicinity include:




Reporting

This section was created in order to give you some more information about what to expect, if you do decide to report to the police. Please be aware that the decision of whether you should do so or not is completely up to you.

Sexual Violence Advisory Service
If you are undecided, you can speak to a member of our Sexual Violence Advisory team, who will be able to answer more specific questions for you.

You can call them on 01227 826 900 or email them at advice@ekrcc.org.uk

We will not report to the police on your behalf unless there is a safeguarding issue. What this means is: if the person involved is under 18 and unsure of whether or not they want to report to the police, provided you do not give us any personal details about the person that would identify them, we cannot report on their behalf.

Support and Crisis phone lines
Alternatively, you can always call our Support and Crisis lines on:
0800 458 2818 or 01227 450400.
We are here to listen. You may want to choose this option if you haven’t told anyone yet, or if you have already decided that you are not going to report to the police, but still would like to speak to someone.

If you’re not ready to talk about it
If you don’t want to speak to anyone right now but you do want further information, there is a book available online called ‘Report to Court’ by 
The Rights Of Women, which you may find useful.

Further info you may find useful (please click on the links):
If you are unsure of what to do, our Crisis and Support lines are available to you. A trained advisor will do everything they can to help you, whatever your situation.
East Kent Rape Crisis Centre can be contacted in a number of ways. 
Find out how

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