We were honoured to be asked to contribute an article for NOTA’s Summer Newsletter, ‘Protecting Animals, Protecting People: the Work of The Links Group’, and to see it featured in print this week.
NOTA, the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abuse, provides a support network for professionals involved in work with or related to sexual offending, through the national organisation and local branch events. NOTA is committed to the prevention of all forms of sexual violence, abuse and sexual exploitation.
Membership of NOTA is open to any professional whose work concerns intervention with sexually aggressive individuals regardless of their age, race, gender or sexual preference. With a growing multi-disciplinary membership comprised of practitioners, managers and policy makers from the public, private and voluntary sectors, NOTA is able to bring a wide variety of perspectives to intervention with sexual aggressors.
The Links Group delivered a session on ‘The Link’ to the NOTA NI conference in 2025. Since then, we have continued to share knowledge and support through training and raising awareness of the link between abuse of animals and abuse of people. NOTA NI was one of the organisations in the UK which provided us with strong support when tabled amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill regarding updating the definition of animal sexual abuse were making its way through the channels at Westminster.
We are grateful for to NOTA for their support. Being included in the NOTA newsletter gives us a further opportunity to talk to this group of professionals about our history, training and impact. This includes raising awareness about our upcoming 25th Anniversary Conference, and our free online modular training course, Protecting Animals, Protecting People: in the Home, made possible through the generous support of Pets Foundation.
Find out more about NOTA here and register for our Pets Foundation course, Protecting Animals, Protecting People: in the Home here.
