oct 1, 2014 - Managed Approach (‘MA’) to on-street sex working in Leeds.

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An experimental "managed" prostitution zone was set up in Holbeck, Leeds to allow prostitutes to work in a designated area between 7 pm and 7 am without the risk of prosecution. It was made permanent in January 2016 and the BBC made the documentary series Sex, Drugs & Murder: Life in the Red Light Zone about the zone.

The MA was developed and introduced by the Safer Leeds Partnership in October 2014,
initially for a one-year trial period, as a response to the various issues concerning pre-existing
on-street sex work in the Holbeck area of South Leeds, particularly the high number of reports
of sex work in residential areas and the low rate of reporting crimes to police (including those
of violence) against them by street-based sex workers.

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