Mission: Supporting individuals and communities, helping to rebuild lives, keeping people affected by crime at the heart of justice in Scotland.
Victim Support Scotland believes people affected by crime have a right to access emotional and practical support and information. This belief is supported by considerable research in many and varied social science studies.
The Victim Service movement emerged in 1985, from responding to an unmet need in Scotland for the provision of support services to people affected by crime. The increasing numbers of people accessing our services throughout Scotland each year evidence the benefit people gain from the provision of such a service. For instance in 2000 we supported 60,000 people and in 2008, 180,000 were referred to our community and court based services.
As society has developed, so too has the nature of support our services are involved in. Presently this ranges from emotional and practical suppoprt and information following, for example, a housebreaking to those following a rape, sexual assault and murder.
Victim Support Scotland recognises the need to continually assess the needs of those people and organisations it serves and will therefore take the following action driven by a clear vision for the future.
We have a clear vision of what we want to achieve. We want our services to support individuals and communities, help rebuild lives and keep individuals at the heart of justice in Scotland. We want to be easy to reach, to be there when we are needed and to support our staff and volunteers in order that they can meet the needs of our service users throughout Scotland.
Our Corporate Plan sets out what we need to do in the next two years to make these things happen. When we were preparing our plan, we consulted widely with people who would be affected by it, both service users and partners.
To secure the organisation's outcomes we have identified five strategic themes. These themes focus on the business corporate objectives.
