Beyond belief: Beyond help? Report on a helpline advertised after the transmission of a channel 4 film on ritual abuse

This paper summarizes the calls received on a national helpline promoted after the screening of a television programme on ritual abuse in the Dispatches series on Channel 4 in February 1992. The helpline was organized by the educational charity Broadcasting Support Services. The helpline dealt with 191 calls of which nearly half concerned ritual abuse. Thirty-nine per cent of all calls were from current victims or survivors of ritual abuse.