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<p>Protection orders are an important tool for keeping victims safe and preventing
the continuation or escalation of violence.</p><p> </p><p>Protections for victims
of sexual offences, including historic abuse include:</p><ul><li>Multi-Agency Public
Protection Arrangements, which are in place to ensure the successful management of
violent and sexual offenders in the community.</li><li>Sexual Harm Prevention Orders,
which can be used to impose a range of restrictions on sexual offenders, including
travel restrictions.</li><li>Sexual Risk Orders, which can be used to impose restrictions
on individuals who have done an act of a sexual nature and, as a result, pose a risk
of harm to the public in the UK or children or vulnerable adults abroad. For a Sexual
Risk Order to be imposed, the individual does not need to have committed an offence.</li><li>Sex
Offender Notification Requirements, which require offenders to provide certain information
to the police, for example notifying them if the offender is living in a household
with a person under the age of 18.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Victim Contact
Scheme is available to victims of violent and sexual offences where the offender receives
a sentence of 12 months or more. The scheme provides victims with information and
advice about the criminal justice process – including being kept informed of key stages
of the offender's sentence and to advise on victim-related conditions that can be
attached to the offender's release licence. Conditions can be around non-contact or
excluding the offender from entering specific locations such as areas where the victim
lives or works. The offender risks being recalled to prison should they breach any
licence conditions.</p>
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