NSPCC helped over 550,000 children last year
10:48 - 22/12/2010
NSPCC helped over 550,000 children la...
An annual review recently published by the NSPCC reveals that the charity helped 553,045 children in the year 2009/10.
The figure represents the number of children and young people who received help through the NSPCC’s national helplines and local projects. ChildLine counsellors alone provided 508,943 children with help, advice and protection. The charity added that many more children were also helped through their numerous campaigns, information provision and lobbying throughout the year.
The NSPCC have developed an annual review site, which outlines the way in which they spent their funds and the progress made during the last year, as well as enabling people to find out about their new strategy and plans for the coming year.
The charity’s new strategy includes a new ChildLine service for primary schools, which aims to teach 5-11 year olds about abuse and ways to protect themselves. The experiences and opinions of children and young people are also set to have a much greater influence over the NSPCC, as they develop new ways to ensure that children are having a meaningful role in their work.
The review also notes the successes experienced by the NSPCC over the past year. During 2009/10 the charity campaigned to make the Home Office record information relating to crimes of child sex abuse after discovering that there was no national database set up to document such information. The NSPCC contacted every police force in the country and discovered that over 21,000 children had become victims of sexual abuse in 2008. The Home Office has now agreed to centrally record this information from April 2011 onwards.
People can visit the NSPCC website now to find out more about the progress made over the last year and the future plans encompassed in their new strategy. They can also read about how the NSPCC has helped individual children.
Charlotte Potter, Head of Quality and Curriculum at First Response Training, says: “The NSPCC do such great work, year on year, and help so many children through ChildLine and other initiatives. It’s great that this report has been laid out on their website, in a way which is so easy to navigate and easy to read, as it highlights how much they achieve.
“Caring for children, especially other people’s children, is such a huge responsibility and a very important role. We offer a number of training courses for those who provide care for children, to help them to better meet the needs of the children and young people whom they deal with and to provide them with a high standard of care.
“The courses have all been developed to support the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage and meet Ofsted standards. We have a range of courses designed for the paediatric sector and are looking to further expand our provision in 2011, adding a number of new courses. Please call us to find out more, and visit our website regularly to keep up to date with new courses and other developments.”
The figure represents the number of children and young people who received help through the NSPCC’s national helplines and local projects. ChildLine counsellors alone provided 508,943 children with help, advice and protection. The charity added that many more children were also helped through their numerous campaigns, information provision and lobbying throughout the year.
The NSPCC have developed an annual review site, which outlines the way in which they spent their funds and the progress made during the last year, as well as enabling people to find out about their new strategy and plans for the coming year.
The charity’s new strategy includes a new ChildLine service for primary schools, which aims to teach 5-11 year olds about abuse and ways to protect themselves. The experiences and opinions of children and young people are also set to have a much greater influence over the NSPCC, as they develop new ways to ensure that children are having a meaningful role in their work.
The review also notes the successes experienced by the NSPCC over the past year. During 2009/10 the charity campaigned to make the Home Office record information relating to crimes of child sex abuse after discovering that there was no national database set up to document such information. The NSPCC contacted every police force in the country and discovered that over 21,000 children had become victims of sexual abuse in 2008. The Home Office has now agreed to centrally record this information from April 2011 onwards.
People can visit the NSPCC website now to find out more about the progress made over the last year and the future plans encompassed in their new strategy. They can also read about how the NSPCC has helped individual children.
Charlotte Potter, Head of Quality and Curriculum at First Response Training, says: “The NSPCC do such great work, year on year, and help so many children through ChildLine and other initiatives. It’s great that this report has been laid out on their website, in a way which is so easy to navigate and easy to read, as it highlights how much they achieve.
“Caring for children, especially other people’s children, is such a huge responsibility and a very important role. We offer a number of training courses for those who provide care for children, to help them to better meet the needs of the children and young people whom they deal with and to provide them with a high standard of care.
“The courses have all been developed to support the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage and meet Ofsted standards. We have a range of courses designed for the paediatric sector and are looking to further expand our provision in 2011, adding a number of new courses. Please call us to find out more, and visit our website regularly to keep up to date with new courses and other developments.”
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