A support group which offers help to sex workers from a van has been continuing its outreach work in Swansea during the Covid pandemic.
The Swan Project, run by the charity Swansea Women's Aid, provides practical and emotional support for sex workers in the High Street area of the city.
Swansea Council officer Paul Thomas told a public services board meeting that the van went out four evenings a week, with between 10 and 20 sex workers coming to it to get advice from project workers, including a sexual health nurse. In addition, the van offers needle exchange, and blood-borne virus testing. Mr Thomas also said six sex workers had also taken up the offer of a rapid prescribing service, which normally is only available through the criminal justice system.