The impact of financial pressures on young people
This briefing uses insights from Childline counselling sessions and Helpline contacts to share children and young people’s voices and experiences of financial pressures.
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Young people’s experiences of online sexual extortion or ‘sextortion’
This briefing uses insight from Childline counselling sessions and NSPCC Helpline contacts to highlight how children and young people are being targeted online by so-called ‘sextortion’ crimes.
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Insights on responses to children experiencing online harm and abuse
This briefing uses insights from Childline counselling sessions and NSPCC Helpline contacts to share the responses children receive after experiencing online harm and abuse.
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Barriers for professionals to reporting abuse and neglect
This briefing shares experiences of adults working or volunteering with young people where they faced barriers to reporting abuse and neglect, identifying gaps in knowledge and confidence for some professionals.
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Challenges young people are facing around sexuality and gender identity
This briefing highlights the pressures some young people who are LGBTQ+ will face as they explore their sexuality and gender identity.
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Young people’s experiences of in-patient mental health care
We look at the challenges young people face in accessing and undergoing in-patient mental health care in the UK.
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Coercive control
We share what parents, carers, children and young people have told our helplines about experiencing domestic abuse in the form of coercive and controlling behaviours.
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Legal but harmful content online
This briefing focuses on children's experiences of pornography and content promoting or glorifying eating disorders, self-harm and suicide.
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Domestic abuse
In 2020/21, contacts to the NSPCC Helpline from parents and carers concerned about children and young people experiencing domestic abuse increased by a third on the previous year. This briefing looks at what parents and carers told us about the impact of domestic abuse on children's safety, behaviour and mental health.
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