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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Matthew Weaver

UK campaigners call for support scheme for victims of terrorism

Brendan Cox
Brendan Cox said it was vital that support was coordinated through a state-backed survivors’ hub or agency. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA

A group of people who survived or were bereaved by terrorist attacks is due to meet the home secretary on Tuesday to call for a state-funded support scheme.

Brendan Cox, widower of the murdered MP Jo Cox and co-founder of the Survivors Against Terror (SAT), will tell Priti Patel and the security minister, Damian Hinds, that granting terror victims minimum guarantees of support should be a key part of the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy.

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