Too little, too late: identifying and tackling neglect
Published August 2024
Type: Research
A report exploring the barriers and challenges multi-agency safeguarding professionals face when identifying and tackling neglect.
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Published August 2024
Type: Research
A report exploring the barriers and challenges multi-agency safeguarding professionals face when identifying and tackling neglect.
Published June 2024
Type: Research
Findings from a series of interviews with new and expectant parents living in the Govan community of Glasgow about their experiences of early pregnancy support in Scotland.
Published May 2024
Type: Research
A report exploring how children’s voices can inform decision-making about online safety.
Published April 2024
Type: Research
A research report exploring what young people at Together for Childhood sites know, think, and would do about child abuse.
Published February 2024
Type: Service evaluation
Read our evaluation of an initiative with primary schools in the Together for Childhood site in Grimsby aiming to prevent abuse and neglect in families facing adversity.
Published January 2024
Type: Research
Findings from a survey of 75 local authorities about reunification practice in England with recommendations to improve support.
Published January 2024
Type: Service evaluation
Key learning from an evaluation of the NSPCC's Safe Home programme, supporting parents and carers of children who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour.
Published December 2023
Type: Research
Evaluation of Young Voices, a project working with young people in Plymouth to design campaigns promoting healthy relationships.
Published November 2023
Type: Research
This review looks at the online risks and harms experienced by children in the UK between 2017 and 2023.
Published October 2023
Type: Research
This briefing brings together learning from past evaluations of our early years programmes.
Published October 2023
Type: Research
Research to help understand the impact of Together for Childhood, a long-term approach bringing together families and local partners to make communities safer for children.
Published September 2023
Type: Research
Research into the experiences of young people about their views on disclosing sexual abuse.
Published September 2023
Type: Research
Research into the risks to children of virtual or augmented reality.
Published April 2023
Type: Research
This report presents the fundamental principles and key priority areas outlined in the government’s first Keeping the Promise implementation plan in Scotland.
Published March 2023
Type: Service evaluation
Key findings from our pilot of a system-wide approach to improving the quality of support for children and families affected by child sexual abuse.
Published March 2023
Type: Research
We commissioned an exploratory research project to find out how young people's views and recommendations for relationships, sex and sexuality education.
Published February 2023
Type: Research
What encourages the general public to act on concerns about a child? We reviewed the literature to find out.
Published November 2022
Type: Research
Read our literature review for an insight into children’s different experiences of learning about relationships, sex and sexuality and how sex education can better match their lived experience.
Published October 2022
Type: Research
This summary reviews the evidence on effective interventions to prevent or reduce child maltreatment.
Published September 2022
Type: Service evaluation
A briefing exploring the Childline referrals process and the outcomes for young people involved.
Published August 2022
Type: Research
Find out what we’ve learnt about delivering Look, Say, Sing, Play which aims to reduce the risk of abuse and neglect by educating parents about the importance of interacting with their babies.
Published May 2022
Type: Service evaluation
An evaluation of how the Childline counselling model was enhanced and implemented to meet the changing needs of children and young people.
Published May 2022
Type: Service evaluation
Find out what we’ve learnt about how the Together for Childhood design principles are working in practice and the differences Together for Childhood is making in local communities.
Published May 2022
Type: Service evaluation
Learn about the Transformative evaluation method used to evaluate Together for Childhood, a place-based project that aims to make communities safer for children.
Published January 2022
Type: Research
A commissioned review by Listen Up that explores what factors can influence children and young people's decision to seek help in non-face-to-face settings and how identity plays a part in help-seeking behaviour.
Published January 2022
Type: Service evaluation
Understanding how the Graded Care Profile 2 assessment tool for neglect supports families and practitioners to achieve change.
Published December 2021
Type: Research
Evaluation of our immersive tool to help adults with talking to children about difficult topics, like abuse.
Published October 2021
Type: Research
Find out how young people benefit from using the Childline message boards to support their help-seeking journey.
Published October 2021
Type: Service evaluation
An independent evaluation was commissioned to examine whether our SOSS programme increases children’s understanding of abuse and what its impact is in primary schools.
Published September 2021
Type: Service evaluation
What we have learned from our approach to programme design, delivery and evaluation over the last decade.
Published September 2021
Type: Service evaluation
Read our research on how the Keeping Safe primary school programme helped to increase knowledge and understanding of abuse concepts in children, parents, carers and teachers.
Published September 2021
Type: Service evaluation
A process evaluation of our primary school programme about recognising abusive behaviours, exploring the views of children, parents and school staff taking part in the programme.
Published June 2021
Type: Service evaluation
Read how the NSPCC’s Keeping Safe programme has been implemented in schools for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Northern Ireland.
Published May 2021
Type: Service evaluation
This report looks at the sustainability and effectiveness of organisations implementing and delivering NSPCC services for local areas.
Published May 2021
Type: Service evaluation
We conducted an evaluation to see how our virtual preventative mental health programme, Pregnancy in Mind, supported parents during COVID-19 and how effective it is when compared to the face-to-face programme.
Published March 2021
Type: Service evaluation
Read our evaluation a programme to help parents and professionals gain a better understanding of the impact of early adversity of child brain development.
Published March 2021
Type: Research
The NSPCC’s local services for children and families were adapted in 2020 to comply with COVID-19 restrictions. Find out more about what our research highlighted and the learning you can take from it.
Published January 2021
Type: Research
At the end of 2020, we commissioned a review of relevant literature around volunteers supporting vulnerable families. Discover more about the research we found and what the key findings were.
Published December 2020
Type: Service evaluation
Find out how we've been ensuring that parents and families continue to receive the perinatal support they need during the pandemic and what we've learnt from the process.
Published December 2020
Type: Research
Our report covers the experiences of NSPCC staff who have been supporting children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published November 2020
Type: Service evaluation
Read our evaluation report of InCtrl, a pilot NSPCC service for children and young people that aims to prevent technology assisted child sexual abuse (TA-CSA).
Published September 2020
Type: Research
Our report investigates the challenges posed by austerity and welfare reform to services working with vulnerable families in Scotland.
Published September 2020
Type: Service evaluation
We looked into the impact of scale-up sites delivering DART in comparison to families who previously attended the service at the NSPCC. The service is aimed at mothers and their children who've been affected by domestic abuse.
Published September 2020
Type: Service evaluation
We conducted an evaluation of our Pregnancy in Mind's face-to-face service which is a preventative mental health service for parents.
Published June 2020
Type: Research
Read our report summarising the risks to children’s safety due to the conditions created by the coronavirus crisis, and why these risks might intensify during the pandemic.
Published November 2019
Type: Service evaluation
Learning from an evaluation of Together for Childhood, a preventative approach to child abuse and neglect that involves community engagement and partnership working.
Published September 2019
Type: Research
A systematic review of effectiveness of Childline and the outcomes for children who contact the service, including evidence about children’s helplines across the world.
Published September 2019
Type: Research
Report analysing the concerns being raised to Childline and the NSPCC helpline about peer sexual abuse.
Published July 2019
Type: Research
Learn about what children and young people talked to Childline about in 2018/19. Also includes previous reports and thematic reports.
Published April 2019
Type: Service evaluation
An evaluation of three NSPCC early intervention services aiming to improve the wellbeing of families in the military community.
Published April 2019
Type: Research
Read our 2013 research into the childhood experiences of abuse of young men and women and how they disclosed and sought help.
Published March 2019
Type: Service evaluation
We evaluated our Protect and Respect service which supports young people who have been or are at risk of being sexually exploited. Find out what the key findings were.
Published February 2019
Type: Research
Published December 2018
Type: Service evaluation
Evaluation of Letting the Future In for children with learning disabilities (LTFI-LD), a service to help children and young people with learning difficulties move on from sexual abuse.
Published November 2018
Type: Research
Study into provision of support in Northern Ireland for women experiencing mental health problems during pregnancy and the year after birth.
Published October 2018
Type: Service evaluation
Evaluation of the NSPCC’s Speak out Stay safe programme, which teaches school children to recognise and speak out about abuse and neglect.
Published September 2018
Type: Research
What works to empower people within a specific community to prevent child sexual abuse in the home.
Published September 2018
Type: Research
A decade after Professor Tanya Byron made 38 recommendations for government on keeping children safe online, are children safer in the digital world?
Published September 2018
Type: Research
Key findings and recommendations from the Perinatal Mental Health in Wales Project exploring how services are experienced by women and their partners.
Published September 2018
Type: Service evaluation
Review of how we supported organisations to use Graded Care Profile 2 (GCP2), a evidence-based tool to measure the quality of care being given to a child and identify whether a child is at risk of neglect.
Published September 2018
Type: Service evaluation
What we learned from supporting local authorities to use an evidence-based resource for assessing whether or not to return a child or young person home from care.
Published September 2018
Type: Research
Understanding younger children, children with a learning difficulty and girls who use our harmful sexual behaviour service.
Published September 2018
Type: Research
Preliminary study estimating the lifetime costs of child abuse and neglect
Published September 2018
Type: Research
Research into the backgrounds and behaviours of boys and young men who engage in harmful sexual behaviours using online and mobile channels.
Published September 2018
Type: Research
Research into what young people and professionals say about the effects of offline and technology-assisted child sexual abuse, and how best to respond to it.
Published September 2018
Type: Service evaluation
What we learned from supporting organisations to deliver Domestic Abuse, Recovering Together™, a service which helps mothers and children who have experienced domestic abuse.
Published September 2018
Type: Research
What works in a service for teenage boys who display harmful sexual behaviour.
Published September 2018
Type: Research
We commissioned a randomised controlled trial (RCT) in collaboration with the University of Bristol and Durham Univeristy to evaluate the impact and implementation of Letting the Future In.
Published September 2018
Type: Research
What children are telling Childline about the services they receive following sexual abuse.
Published September 2018
Type: Research
What the evidence base can tell us about the online harmful sexual behaviours displayed by children and young people.
Published September 2018
Type: Research