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NSPCC Statistics
No full textNSPCC statistics database and accompanying data documentation: data guide, data dictionary and attribution statemen
Letting the Future In: a therapeutic intervention for children affected by sexual abuse and their carers:An evaluation of impact and implementation
No full textLetting the Future In is a structured guide to therapeutic intervention with children affected by sexual abuse. The guide was developed by the NSPCC and has been implemented by 20 NSPCC teams across England, Wales and Northern Ireland since 2011. It is available to children aged between four and 17 who have made a disclosure and experienced sexual abuse, live with a safe carer with no planned moves and have no diagnosed learning disability. Letting the Future In is grounded in an understanding of trauma, attachment and resilience. It is largely psychodynamic in nature and emphasises the therapeutic attunement of the practitioner to the child’s emotional responses to abuse, which typically include betrayal, powerlessness, shame and traumatic sexualisation. It sees the therapeutic relationship between child and practitioner as ‘core’ and employs creative therapies with work on the awareness and management of feelings. It also draws on other methods including counselling and socio-educative approaches. Children receive up to four therapeutic assessment sessions followed by up to 20 intervention sessions, extended up to 30 if necessary. At the same time, their safe carer is offered up to eight sessions to help them process the impact of discovering that their child was sexually abused, and to support the child in their recovery.There are few rigorous evaluations of therapeutic interventions for these children. Recognising that Letting the Future In is new and untested, the NSPCC commissioned a process and impact evaluation from the universities of Bristol and Durham
Letting the Future In: a therapeutic intervention for children affected by sexual abuse and their carers:An evaluation of impact and implementation
Get PDFLetting the Future In is a structured guide to therapeutic intervention with children affected by sexual abuse. The guide was developed by the NSPCC and has been implemented by 20 NSPCC teams across England, Wales and Northern Ireland since 2011. It is available to children aged between four and 17 who have made a disclosure and experienced sexual abuse, live with a safe carer with no planned moves and have no diagnosed learning disability. Letting the Future In is grounded in an understanding of trauma, attachment and resilience. It is largely psychodynamic in nature and emphasises the therapeutic attunement of the practitioner to the child’s emotional responses to abuse, which typically include betrayal, powerlessness, shame and traumatic sexualisation. It sees the therapeutic relationship between child and practitioner as ‘core’ and employs creative therapies with work on the awareness and management of feelings. It also draws on other methods including counselling and socio-educative approaches. Children receive up to four therapeutic assessment sessions followed by up to 20 intervention sessions, extended up to 30 if necessary. At the same time, their safe carer is offered up to eight sessions to help them process the impact of discovering that their child was sexually abused, and to support the child in their recovery.There are few rigorous evaluations of therapeutic interventions for these children. Recognising that Letting the Future In is new and untested, the NSPCC commissioned a process and impact evaluation from the universities of Bristol and Durham
Early intervention in personality disorder: MST and other treatments for socially excluded high risk/high harm children and families
No full textThis report, produced by Dr Eileen Vizard and colleagues from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), is a comprehensive report of a seminar held in November 2007, which brought together national and international academics and practitioners, in the field of childhood conduct disorders, prevention and treatment of antisocial behaviour and the emergence of anti-social personality disorder
Child abuse The NSPCC version
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Grappling with smoke: investigating and managing organised child sexual abuse: a good practice guide
No full textThere has been, and remains, a great deal of concern among policy makers, practitioners, the media and members of the public concerning organised child sexual abuse (OCSA).
OCSA includes the following types of case:
• Child sexual abuse (CSA) by multiple offenders (a small proportion of these cases may also involve allegations of ritual or satanic CSA)
• Sex offenders who abuse a series of children
• Sex offenders who abuse children with whom they work
The study described in this research report* involved the following:
• A postal questionnaire survey carried out among police child protection teams and children’s services departments, and selected NSPCC projects. (Information was obtained on 51 OCSA cases.)
• Interviews with agency workers concerning specific cases of OCSA that they had investigated or managed. These interviewees comprised police officers, social workers and staff from voluntary agencies/NGOs, including the NSPCC. Interviews were carried out with 30 agency workers.
• Interviews with agency workers who had either more specialist knowledge of OCSA cases or who could provide input on the broader aspects of investigating and managing OCSA. Interviews were carried out with 13 agency workers.
All of the above work was carried out in London in 1995 and 1996. It was funded by the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children).
The research report contains numerous findings on the special issues that arise in the investigation and management of OCSA cases. It also makes a whole series or recommendations as to how practitioners should respond to these cases. The research report addresses work in the following areas: Area Child Protection Committees [now superseded by Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards]; the handling of OCSA in general; and then the specific issues that arise in terms of the roles of the police, children’s services departments, the NSPCC, the criminal justice system, the Prison Service, Customs and Excise, other ACPC agencies (health, education and probation) and voluntary agencies/NGOs.
This work remains one of the few studies of OCSA.
*Gallagher, B. (1998) Grappling with Smoke. Investigating and Managing Organised Child Sexual Abuse: A Good Practice Guide. London: NSPC
Children talking to ChildLine about parental alcohol and drug misuse.
No full textChildLine Casenotes is a series of reports based on analysis of calls to ChildLine, a free confidential helpline for children and young people in the UK provided by the NSPCC.
This report is based on detailed analysis of calls to ChildLine from April 2008 to March 2009.
Key findings
• Children who were counselled by ChildLine about their parents’ alcohol and drug misuse often also talked about their experiences of physical abuse, family relationship problems, neglect and sexual abuse.
• Children talked about being worried, frightened and confused by their parents’ alcohol and drug misuse.
• Children often took on a caring role and saw it as their responsibility to solve their parents’ alcohol and drug misuse problems.
• Almost twice the number of children were counselled by ChildLine about their parents’ alcohol misuse than about drug misuse.
• Children who were cared for by habitual alcohol or drug users could be inducted to rely on alcohol and drugs in order to cope with life’s challenges
Early intervention programmes for mental health from the NSPCC: Part 2
No full textThe NSPCC is dedicated to perinatal wellbeing and advocating for a preventive model of care that has the potential to improve the mental health for parents, families and communities. Here in the second of two articles, Camilla Sanger, Alice Haynes, Gary Mountain and Naomi Bonett-Healy describe two evidence-based perinatal NSPCC services facilitated by midwives
Seeing and hearing the child: rising to the challenge of parental substance misuse
No full textThis is a review of a training package developed by NSPCC to raise awareness and enhance skills with regard to children of parents who use/abuse alcohol and drugs
Parenting, poverty and the NSPCC in Ireland, 1889–1939
No full textThis chapter addresses a number of key questions surrounding parenting, poverty and the state in Ireland from 1889 to 1939.1 Concentrating on the period from the opening of the first Irish branch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to the beginning of the Second World War, it highlights international concerns involving child protection, parenting, and the state, as well as specific Irish anxieties surrounding class, gender, emigration, sexuality and the family. This was an era in which parenting was increasingly seen as national duty, and, as Harry Hendrick has asserted in a broader history of child welfare and the NSPCC in Britain, ‘“Civilised” parenting, especially by the Irish and the poor, was testimony to progress.Not peer reviewed2019-12-3
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