The Safer Living Foundation (SLF) is a British charity focused on reducing sexual offending and reoffending through rehabilitative and preventative initiatives.
This project was created in response to research by Simon Hackett[9] which showed a large proportion of sexual crimes reported against children were committed by other young people.
[12] The centre is funded by sources including Nottingham Trent University, Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner, and the Department for Health and Social Care.
[13] Paddy Tipping (Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner) said of the centre “If we can rehabilitate offenders and support them as they return to live in the community, they will be safer and less likely to reoffend.
This in turn means there will be fewer victims of sexual abuse and harm.” The centre has been met with criticism from local sexual abuse survivors groups who described the opening of the centre as “a slap in the face” and felt that “it says that the offender is more important than the victim”, whilst also stating that they “support anything that can be done to rehabilitate sex offenders”.