National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
NSPCC was founded way back in 1884, a surprising sixty years after the RSPCA. Since it was founded, NSPCC has helped over 10 million children have a better life.
Their vision is to put an end to child cruelty in the UK. Working to achieve this, they run a wide range of services for both children and adults including the confidential Helpline, ChildLine and numerous local services, aiming to show the best way to protect children and help them get over the effects of neglect and abuse. NSPCC believe that a greater effect can be achieved through influencing other organisations as well as delivering direct services, and so they campaign to raise awareness and engage others in combating child cruelty.
NSPCC works with children directly, particularly those across seven priority areas: those who experience neglect; physical abuse in high-risk families; those who experience sexual abuse; children under the age of one; disabled children; children from certain black and minority ethnic communities and looked after children.
When they have an idea they think will reduce harm to children, they test it, measuring it carefully to ensure that it works. If it does they tell others, so that new ideas and services are taken up to help other children.
It costs the NSPCC:
- £4 to answer a young person’s call to ChildLine
- £25 to enable a trained practitioner from the NSPCC Helpline to deliver one hour of support to an adult concerned about a child at risk
- £42 for a young person to have a one-to-one counselling session online and over the phone through ChildLine
Your pennies can make a big difference to the lives of these children.
