UKNSWP has three months of funding to begin planning how a UK wide “Ugly Mugs” scheme could work, with another nine months expected. We’ll be talking to lots of people to make our plans as effective and inclusive as possible. At the end of the development project we’ll come up with proposals about how such a scheme could work. The aims would be to;

· Share information about people who commit crimes against sex workers & alert sex workers to dangerous people

· Give sex workers a safe, confidential way to report crimes against them

· Help catch people who commit crimes against sex workers

Provide statistics about crimes against sex workers so it is possible to create policies that prevent them
Show that crime against sex workers will not be tolerated and will be targeted by the police
As well as talking to sex work projects we want to talk to people in the sex industry about what they would want from the scheme and what would enable them to feel safe to share information into the scheme.

We will soon be holding meetings to discuss this and will let you know when they are arranged.

If in the meantime you have thoughts and ideas you would like to share, please contact Rosie, a long term IUSW/GMB member on rosiecamp1@aol.com You can give ideas by email, or Rosie can arrange to talk on the phone, or possibly meet with you one to one.