There are 55 Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) in England and Wales providing specialist medical and forensic services to the victims of rape and sexual assault. They’re currently expected to meet similar standards of environmental monitoring as DNA laboratories. This is a very high bar and places considerable pressure on the SARC services.
To influence change to the current SARC environmental monitoring criteria the FCN has been working with SARCs and academic colleagues to study environmental monitoring practices.
Helping SARCs with ‘real world’ environmental monitoring standards
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