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.

Briefings highlighting what children and young people tell us about the issues affecting them.

An evaluation of how the Childline counselling model was enhanced and implemented to meet the changing needs of children and young people.

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.

Learn about the Transformative evaluation method used to evaluate Together for Childhood, a place-based project that aims to make communities safer for children.

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.

Understanding how the Graded Care Profile 2 assessment tool for neglect supports families and practitioners to achieve change.

Evaluation of our immersive tool to help adults with  talking to children about difficult topics, like abuse.

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.

Find out how young people benefit from using the Childline message boards to support their help-seeking journey.

What we have learned from our approach to programme design, delivery and evaluation over the last decade.

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.

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.

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.

This report looks at the sustainability and effectiveness of organisations implementing and delivering NSPCC services for local areas.

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.

Read our evaluation a programme to help parents and professionals gain a better understanding of the impact of early adversity of child brain development.

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.

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.

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.

Our report covers the experiences of NSPCC staff who have been supporting children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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).

Our report investigates the challenges posed by austerity and welfare reform to services working with vulnerable families in Scotland.

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.

We conducted an evaluation of our Pregnancy in Mind's face-to-face service which is a preventative mental health service for parents. 

Our summary of messages from research into HSB published in 2016 and 2017.

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.

Learning from an evaluation of Together for Childhood, a preventative approach to child abuse and neglect that involves community engagement and partnership working.

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.

Report analysing the concerns being raised to Childline and the NSPCC helpline about peer sexual abuse.

Learn about what children and young people talked to Childline about in 2018/19. Also includes previous reports and thematic reports.

An evaluation of three NSPCC early intervention services aiming to improve the wellbeing of families in the military community.

Read our 2013 research into the childhood experiences of abuse of young men and women and how they disclosed and sought help.

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.

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.

Study into provision of support in Northern Ireland for women experiencing mental health problems during pregnancy and the year after birth.

Evaluation of the NSPCC’s Speak out Stay safe programme, which teaches school children to recognise and speak out about abuse and neglect.

A decade after Professor Tanya Byron made 38 recommendations for government on keeping children safe online, are children safer in the digital world?

Key findings and recommendations from the Perinatal Mental Health in Wales Project exploring how services are experienced by women and their partners.

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.

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.

Preliminary study estimating the lifetime costs of child abuse and neglect

Research into the backgrounds and behaviours of boys and young men who engage in harmful sexual behaviours using online and mobile channels.

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.

What we learned from supporting organisations to deliver Domestic Abuse, Recovering Together™, a service which helps mothers and children who have experienced domestic abuse.

An overview of what happens to children following the disclosure or discovery of sexual abuse in the West of Scotland.

What works in a service for teenage boys who display harmful sexual behaviour.

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.

​What children are telling Childline about the services they receive following sexual abuse.

What the evidence base can tell us about the online harmful sexual behaviours displayed by children and young people.