Ms Maeve Lewis:

It is not just One in Four; it is all the services working with sexual trauma in particular and, indeed, the National Counselling Service. We are all under-resourced and we all have very long waiting lists. When somebody plucks up the courage to pick up the phone and ring One in Four, for example, they should be met with the expectation that they will be offered an appointment with a psychotherapist within a short period. Instead, we have to tell people it is great that they have called us but it will be over a year before they can get an appointment. It is all down to resourcing. It is a perennial problem in the sexual violence sector.