NSPCC
Founded | 1884 | (as the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)
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Registration no. | 216401 |
Location | |
Coordinates | 51°31′23″N 0°04′50″W / 51.523174°N 0.080502°W |
Area served | United Kingdom and the Channel Islands |
Key people | Neil Berkett (Chair) Peter Wanless (Chief executive) |
Revenue | £118 Million[1] |
Employees | Approx. 2,500[2] |
Volunteers | 1,700 |
Website | www |
Formerly called | Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (LSPCC) |
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is a British child protection charity founded as the Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (LSPCC) by Thomas Agnew on 19 April 1883. The NSPCC lobbies the government on issues relating to child welfare, and creates child abuse public awareness campaigns. Since the 1980s, the charity has had statutory powers allowing it to apply for help on behalf of children at risk. In the 1990s, the charity's publication, Satanic Indicators, fueled panic in social workers who went and accused parents and removed children from homes when they should not have. It operates a help line. The Paddington Bear character has partnered with the charity to raise funds for the charity. NSPCC operates telephone helplines.
History
Victorian era
On a trip to New York in 1881,
On 1 January 1887, the Child's Guardian, the official magazine of the Society was launched.
After five years of campaigning by the London SPCC, Parliament passed the first ever UK law to protect children from abuse and neglect in 1889. The London SPCC was renamed the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children on 14 May 1889,[8] because by then it had branches across Great Britain and Ireland. In the same year the Chief Commissioners of the Metropolitan and City of London Police issued instructions that all cases of cruelty to children reported to them should be handed to NSPCC to be dealt with.[9]
The NSPCC was granted its Royal Charter on 28 May 1895 by
20th century
In 1901, King Edward VII and his wife Queen Alexandra became Patrons of the Society upon the death of Queen Victoria. In 1905, Reverend Benjamin Waugh retired from the Directorship of the Society, as a result of failing health, after 21 years' of service. In 1910, King George V and his wife Queen Mary became Patrons of the Society upon the death of King Edward VII.[9]
Shortly after the outbreak of the
In 1919, the Prince of Wales, later to be King Edward VIII, became a Patron of the Society. In 1926 the Prince spoke on behalf of the NSPCC in a radio appeal.[10]
In 1930, the Society reported helping its four-millionth child.[9]
Shortly after the outbreak of the
The NSPCC's organisation in the Republic of Ireland was taken up by the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC), founded in 1956 as a replacement for the NSPCC.[12] Today, the NSPCC works in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and the Channel Islands.
1980s
The NSPCC is the only UK charity which has been granted statutory powers under the Children Act 1989, allowing it to apply for care and supervision orders for children at risk. In 1983, the NSPCC launched its centenary appeal in Britain in order to "establish 60 child protection teams across the country." The launch of the appeal occurred during a time when the organization was struggling because of an insufficient amount of public support and government funds. To help advertise for the NSPCC, a poster was created that highlighted the faces of two abused children, one from 1884 and the other from 1984. The message that was written along with the picture was "The faces change, the bruises don't."[7]
1990s
The NSPCC documented allegations of
The NSPCC also provided a publication known as Satanic Indicators to social services around the country that has been blamed for some social workers panicking and making
In 1999, an advert released by the NSPCC "warning" of the risk of children being murdered by strangers was criticised as a
21st century
2010s
In 2011, the NSPCC launched its All Babies Count campaign to highlight the vulnerability of babies and calling for better and earlier support for new parents.[22] In 2012, the charity won a PRCA award for its "Don't Wait Until You're Certain" campaign that encouraged people to call the NSPCC with any worry about a child.[23]
In November 2014, fifty Paddington Bear statues, created by various celebrities and organisations—including the NSPCC designed "Patchwork Paddington"—were located around London prior to the release of the film Paddington, with the statues auctioned to raise funds for the NSPCC.[24][25]
In 2017, the Information Commissioner's Office fined eleven charities that breached the Data Protection Act by misusing donors’ personal data. NSPCC was fined £12,000.[26][non-primary source needed]
In 2019, the NSPCC engaged transgender activist
Activities
The NSPCC lobbies the government on issues relating to child welfare, and creates campaigns for the general public, with the intention of raising awareness of child protection issues. It also operates both a helpline on 0808 800 5000, for anyone concerned about a child, and Childline offering support to children themselves. Childline became a part of the NSPCC in 2006. In addition to the telephone helplines, NSPCC provides an online counselling service for children and young people at Childline.[29][verification needed][30]
The NSPCC runs local service centres across the UK where it helps children, young people, and families.[31] Since 2009, the NSPCC has run a Child Protection Consultancy service aiming to make organisations safer for children. This offers training and consultancy to organisations which have contact with children, ranging from schools to sporting bodies. The charity works through local safeguarding children's boards (LSCBs), where the police, health, social and education services and others can work together.
The charity is regularly audited and publishes its annual report and accounts as required by the Charity Commission.[32][verification needed]
In May 2021, a helpline that was launched for victims to report abuse and harassment in educational settings had taken hundreds of calls since it opened. The NSPCC received 353 calls between April 1 and May 16. Of these, 65 were referred to external agencies such as the police and children’s services.[33]
Research and evidence
In 2009, the NSPCC launched a new seven year strategy. The strategy reaffirmed the society's vision of ending cruelty to children in the UK. It was suggested that policy, influencing and campaigning work, combined with the experience of working directly with young people could help deliver this vision. Learning was to be at the core of the society's work. The ambition was to subject all of the organisation's direct services to an evaluation and then roll out effective interventions to mainstream service providers.[34] In 2016 the society's new six year strategy pledged to continue generating evidence of 'what works' in preventing child sexual abuse.[35]
In 2016, the NSPCC launched a web-based 'Impact and Evidence' hub which was designed to promote and make accessible the research evidence that it produced.[36] The hub contained sections on:
- Research and evaluation reports.[37]
- Information about how evaluations were carried out by the NSPCC,[38] including information about the outcome measures used.[39]
- A series of blog articles recounting the experiences of professionals in running research articles and producing evidence.[36]
- Information about the organisation's Research Ethics Committee and the process of ethical review to which research projects needed to be subject.[40]
Research and evidence reports produced by the NSPCC include evaluations of:
- A video interaction guidance intervention with families where initial concerns about neglect have been noted.[41]
- A therapeutic intervention for children affected by sexual abuse and their carers.[42]
- An intervention designed to support infant mental health.[43]
- An early intervention programme designed to enhance a mother's relationship with her baby.[44]
- A parenting programme helping fathers change their behaviour after domestic abuse.[45]
- An intervention helping mothers rebuild relationships with their children after domestic abuse.[46]
- An intervention helping parents with drug or alcohol problems improve their parenting skills.[47][48]
- An exploratory approach to working with community members to eliminate child sexual abuse.[49][50]
See also
- Internet Watch Foundation
- Kidscape
- The Children's Society
- Timeline of young people's rights in the United Kingdom
References
- ^ "NSPCC Annual Report 2019-2020". NSPCC. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
- ^ "Media Centre – FAQs". NSPCC. Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
- ^ Shennan, Paddy (19 November 2017). "Powerful photos show Liverpool's proud history of helping abused children". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ Brain, Jessica. "Angela Burdett-Coutts, Philanthropist". Historic UK. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
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- ^ Flegel, Monica (Spring 2007). ""Facts and Their Meaning": Child Protection, Intervention, and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Late Nineteenth-Century England". Victorian Review. 33 (1): 87–101. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ S2CID 161106061.
- ^ "About the NSPCC". Archived from the original on 20 August 2007. Retrieved 19 September 2007.
- ^ a b c d NSPCC Annual Report for 1930-31. London: NSPCC Central Office, 1931, p. 48.
- ^ OCLC 50875165.
- ^ Birmingham and District Branch of the NSPCC, Annual Report for the year ending 31 December 1942, p. 2; Carlisle, Penrith and North Cumberland Branch of the NSPCC, Annual Report for the year ended 31st December 1945, p. 2.
- ^ The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC), Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, Volume V, Chapter 1 Archived 30 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Libby Jukes and Richard Duce, NSPCC says ritual child abuse is rife, The Times, 13 March 1990
- ISBN 0-11-321797-8. Retrieved 29 April 2008.
- ISBN 0-521-62934-9.
- ^ Tim Black (5 September 2011). "The NSPCC doesn't help kids – it harms them". Spiked. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ^ Jeni Harvey (14 January 2006). "Satanic abuse: The truth at last". Middleton Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 October 2012.
- ^ "When Satan came to town". BBC. 9 January 2006. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- ^ Cummings, Dolan (12 January 2006). "A full stop to the Satanic panic". Spiked. Retrieved 19 September 2007.
- ^ Why this NSPCC advert is harmful to children. The Guardian. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ A Stranger Danger. Sirc.org. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
- ^ "NSPCC warns 200,000 babies at risk of abuse". BBC News. 10 November 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ "PRCA Awards 2012". PRCA. Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ "Why Paddington Bear Statues Have Taken Over London". Condé Nast. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ Murphy, Shaunna (3 November 2014). "Emma Watson Designed A Paddington Bear For Charity And It's Freaking Adorable". MTV. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ "ICO fines eleven more charities". ico.org.uk. 5 June 2017. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
- ^ "Munroe Bergdorf dropped as Childline ambassador following "transphobic hate campaign"". GAY TIMES. 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Munroe Bergdorf: NSPCC explains transgender activist decision". BBC News. 14 June 2019.
- ^ "Home Page". ChildLine. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- ^ Lake, Howard. "ChildLine and NSPCC to Merge in 2006 | UK Fundraising." UK Fundraising. 2005. Web. 20 April 2016.
- ^ "NSPCC direct services". NSPCC. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ "THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN". Charity Commission. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ "Abuse helpline takes hundreds of calls, says NSPCC". BBC News. 24 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ NSPCC Strategy 2009-16
- ^ NSPCC. "NSPCC Strategy 2016-21" (PDF). NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ a b NSPCC. "Impact and evidence: Using evaluation, research and evidence to protect children and prevent abuse". NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ NSPCC. "Impact and evidence series: Our evaluation and research on what works to protect children from abuse and neglect". NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ NSPCC. "How we evaluate our services". NSPCC.
- ^ NSPCC. "Tools for measuring outcomes for children and families: Our experiences of using standardised measures in the evaluation of our services". NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ NSPCC. "Research with children: ethics, safety and avoiding harm What to consider when conducting research involving children". NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Whalley, Paul; Williams, Mike. "Child neglect and Video Interaction Guidance: an evaluation of an NSPCC service offered to parents where initial concerns of neglect have been noted" (PDF). NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Carpenter, John; Jessiman, Tricia; Patsios, Demi. "Letting the Future In: a therapeutic intervention for children affected by sexual abuse and their carers, an evaluation of impact and implementation" (PDF). NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Turner-Halliday, Fiona; Watson, Nicholas; Minnis, Helen. "Process Evaluation of the New Orleans Intervention Model for Infant Mental Health in Glasgow" (PDF). NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Grayton, Lucy; Burns, Phebe; Pistrang, Nancy; Fearon, Pasco. "Minding the Baby: Qualitative Findings on Implementation from the First UK Service" (PDF). NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ McConnell, Nicola; Barnard, Matt; Holdsworth, Tracey; Taylor, Julie. "Caring Dads: Safer Children" (PDF). NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Smith, Emma. "Domestic Abuse, Recovering Together Evaluation Report" (PDF). NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Hollis, Vicki; Cotmore, Richard; Fisher, Helen; Harnett, Paul; Dawe, Sharon. "An evaluation of 'Parents Under Pressure' a parenting programme for mothers and fathers who misuse substances" (PDF). NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Barlow, Jane; Sembi, Sukhdev; Petrou, Stavros; Parsons, Helen; Dawe, Sharon; Harnett, Paul. "Parents under Pressure: a programme for families with parental substance misuse An evaluation of impact, process and cost-effectiveness" (PDF). NSPCC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ Williams, Mike (2018). "Four Steps to the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse in the Home" (PDF). NSPCC.
- ^ Williams, Mike (2018). "Working with a community to prevent child sexual abuse in the home" (PDF). NSPCC. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
Bibliography
- Susan J. Creighton, "Organized Abuse: The NSPCC Experience", Child Abuse Review; Volume 2, Issue 4 (1993), p. 232–242.
- Jean La Fontaine, The Extent and Nature of Organised and Ritual Sexual Abuse of Children, HMSO, 1994.
- Jean La Fontaine, Speak of the Devil: Tales of Satanic Abuse in Contemporary England, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Department of Health and Social Services Inspectorate. North West Region, Inspection of child protection services in Rochdale, Greater Manchester: Social Services Inspectorate. North West Region, 1990, viii, 33pp.
- Clyde, James J., The report of the inquiry into the removal of children from Orkney in February 1991, Edinburgh: HMSO, 1992, xiv, 363pp. ISBN 0-10-219593-5.
- Department of Health and Social Security and Welsh Office, Working Together: a guide to arrangements for inter-agency co-operation for the protection of children from abuse, London: HMSO, 1988, 72pp. ISBN 0-11-321154-6.
- Eleanor Stobart, Child abuse linked to accusations of "possession" and "witchcraft", Nottingham: Department for Education and Skills, 2006.