{"id":292401,"date":"2025-07-26T04:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T04:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/292401\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T04:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T04:40:16","slug":"cousin-of-concepta-leonard-says-ministers-need-to-do-more-to-protect-abuse-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/292401\/","title":{"rendered":"Cousin of Concepta Leonard says ministers need to do more to protect abuse victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mrs Leonard also called for greater availability of services to help victims. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It sits with them to set the strategic vision, but also to provide the investment into the services on the ground that make the practical difference, to be able to have 24 hour response, helplines and residential places for safety,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If I think of my cousin I think of someone who would not have been perceived of someone who would&#8217;ve been at risk, we need to have a better sense of that it can happen within  any age group, race, culture and creed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have to recognise that this can happen to any person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the murders on Wednesday, the Health Minister Mike Nesbitt and the Justice Minister Naomi Long issued a joint statement saying: &#8220;We are horrified and heartbroken to learn of the tragedy that has occurred in Maguiresbridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We send our deepest sympathies to the families affected and to the wider community in County Fermanagh,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The shock of this terrible event is being felt by many people and we would urge those in need of support to reach out to services provided within the Health and Social Care system, and in the voluntary and community sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mrs Leonard also called for greater availability of services to help victims. &#8220;It sits with them to set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-292401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114917698801029759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}