{"id":91601,"date":"2025-10-20T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/91601\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:10:07","slug":"abuse-charity-says-record-number-of-people-sought-help-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/91601\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuse charity says record number of people sought help last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A record number of people sought help last year from a charity that supports adult survivors of child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>One In Four said contacts to its specialist support service rose by 17% in 2024, with a significant increase in the numbers of men coming forward for help.<\/p>\n<p>They say the rise followed the publication of the Scoping Inquiry Report into Historical Sexual Abuse in Schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the State talks honestly about child sexual abuse and demonstrates that survivors will be heard, people respond,\u201d the organisation\u2019s CEO, Deirdre Kenny, said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the public conversation and the visibility of the inquiry helped \u201ccreate an environment in which survivors \u2013 especially men \u2013 felt able to come forward and seek support\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThese numbers represent not just statistics but real people breaking years, sometimes decades, of silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organisation\u2019s annual report will be launched by Minister for Justice Jim O\u2019 Callaghan on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, One In Four supported nearly 1,300 individuals over almost 7,700 sessions.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record number of people sought help last year from a charity that supports adult survivors of child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10455,3221,61,60,43,58036],"class_list":{"0":"post-91601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-abuse","9":"tag-charity","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-one-in-four"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}