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Justice Secretary Alex Norris says the government has listened to the rape and sexual offence victims who called the process of seeking justice ‘dehumanising’ as he announces plans to open special courts to try cases involving rape and sexual offence allegations as part of government measures to help tackle violence against women and girls. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This is a huge change for victims. We've heard from them that they find the process
00:04of seeking justice, having suffered rape or sexual offence, that the process is very dehumanising.
00:10The process is very hard to predict and sometimes hard to understand. We're changing that.
00:15Our announcement today will ensure specialist rape and serious sexual offences courts in every
00:21Crown Court by 2028. We're going to make improvements to court buildings so that they
00:25are separated from the alleged perpetrator. We're going to pilot having a single point
00:30of contact as well. These are really big changes. We're getting on with them right away.
00:35It's a £23 million package and they're going to see that over the next couple of years.
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