We aim to develop robust national victim support and violence prevention services for a growing population of individuals, who, due to poverty and labour precarity, find themselves working across several sex industries to pay for life. We provide a national mechanism for processing reports of harm to sex workers and sharing this information in sex industry communities to prevent harm. NUM provides high quality care to each sex worker who reports harm, ensuring that they receive the acknowledgement, services, and the information needed to heal and explore options for justice.

We take reports of harm to sex workers, and with their consent, we produce hundreds of thousands of warnings every year, which are sent directly to sex workers and front-line support projects throughout the UK who are members of NUM.

With consent, we share anonymous intelligence with the police to inform crime investigations and go after those who are a threat, or who hurt members of our communities.

We support sex workers in making full reports to the police so that the offenders can be identified and pursued through the criminal justice system.

We ensure that sex workers have access to professional services and the information they need to work safely and also to consider options for support.
We deliver community education by sex industry workers and subject matter experts to professionals in order to address stigma, increasing skills and knowledge to improve support services and responses to sex workers as victims of crime.

We are expanding our services as we learn more about marginalised populations within sex work, such as workers of colour (WOC), LGBT+ communities, sex workers with (mental) health issues and disabilities, and others who have specialised needs and concerns about victimisation and access to public services and the justice system.

Our case work team will come to embody the diversity of the community we serve. NUM support services, now include customised grief and loss, suicide prevention materials; a directory of sex worker-friendly therapists; opportunities for group therapy; information sessions and online chat. With sex workers, we are trialling SilverCloud™, a tool for mobile mental health support and we will be building services and support groups around other tools as they come on board.

We will be launching eLearning to various communities to raise awareness of the plight of sex workers and improve their treatment throughout society, such as combating stigma.. We will be developing transition tools to support financial management and resilience, and planning activities for those who want to change their involvement in sex work. More information to come!