Childline and NSPCC Helpline insight briefings
Published September 2024
Type: Helplines insights
Briefings highlighting what children and young people tell us about the issues affecting them.
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Published September 2024
Type: Helplines insights
Briefings highlighting what children and young people tell us about the issues affecting them.
Published September 2024
Type: Helplines insights
We share young people’s experiences of so-called ‘sextortion’ from contacts to Childline and the NSPCC Helpline.
Published September 2024
Type: CASPAR briefing
A summary of the key changes to Keeping children safe in education – England's statutory safeguarding guidance for schools in 2024.
Published September 2024
Type: CASPAR briefing
Summaries for key reports and statutory and non-statutory guidance.
Published August 2024
Type: Leaflets and posters
A set of resources to help parents interact with their baby, boosting child development and setting up positive behaviour as their child grows.
Published August 2024
Summary of risk factors and learning for improved practice around suicide.
Published August 2024
Type: Statistics
Pulls together all the data available about child neglect, including the scale of the issue and the characteristics of children who experience child neglect.
Published August 2024
Type: Practical guidance
Prefer audio? Our podcast covers a range of child protection issues to inform, create debate and tell you about the work that we do to keep children safe.
Published August 2024
Type: Helplines insights
This briefing uses insights from Childline counselling sessions and NSPCC Helpline contacts to share the responses children receive after experiencing online harm and abuse.
Published August 2024
Type: Practical guidance
A range of early years resources for professionals to help improve practice and support parents from pregnancy to pre-school.
Published August 2024
Type: Practical guidance
How many staff or volunteers do you need to supervise a group of children? Read our guidance on appropriate staffing and supervision ratios for groups, schools and early years.
Published July 2024
Type: CASPAR briefing
A summary of guidance on safeguarding requirements for early years settings in England.
Published July 2024
Type: Practical guidance
Our resources and services for organisations working with parents.
Published July 2024
Type: Practical guidance
A collection of resources and services to support mental health
Published June 2024
Type: Evidence snapshot
Top-line messages from research on conducting effective assessments in children’s social work – from challenges to enablers.
Published June 2024
Type: Practice points
Ten practice points designed to help social workers reflect on what makes a good quality assessment.
Published June 2024
Type: Leaflets and posters
A guide co-produced by NSPCC and Approachable Parenting to support Muslim families to help keep children safe by making uncomfortable conversations feel comfortable.
Published June 2024
Type: Statistics
Our series of factsheets pulls together the most up-to-date statistics on children who are the subject to child protection plan or on a child protection register for each of the UK nations.
Published June 2024
Type: Statistics
Briefing on the data available about HSB, including scale of the issue, technology-assisted HSB and characteristics of young people who display HSB.
Published May 2024
What serious case reviews teach us about barriers to hearing and facilitating the voice of the child and how to overcome them.
Published May 2024
Type: Statistics
Find out more about the calls and contacts received by our helpline services.
Published April 2024
Type: Leaflets and posters
Our series of posters encourage children to contact Childline if they need to talk.
Published April 2024
Type: Practical guidance
Support a young person to get a nude image or video shared online removed from the internet.
Published April 2024
Type: Practical guidance
Summarises best practice on changing areas and supervising children and young people, including those with additional needs, when getting changed for activities.
Published April 2024
Type: Statistics
Our briefing compiles available data and statistics on how many children have died due to abuse or neglect to help you make evidence-based decisions about child protection.
Published April 2024
Insight from case reviews around best practice for multi-agency working and information sharing.
Published April 2024
Type: Statistics
Explores the data available about physical abuse, including the scale of the issue and the characteristics of children who experience physical abuse.
Published April 2024
Type: Statistics
Find out the data available on emotional abuse, including the scale of the issue and the characteristics of children who experience emotional abuse.
Published March 2024
Type: Helplines insights
We share barriers faced by professionals to reporting abuse and neglect from contacts to Helpline and the Whistleblowing Advice Line.
Published March 2024
Type: Practical guidance
A five-part podcast series exploring the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) final recommendations. The series breaks down why the recommendations are needed, how they’ll work if implemented, and what impact they might have on the prevention of child sexual abuse. A useful introduction to the Inquiry for anyone who is working or volunteering with children and young people.
Published March 2024
Insight from case reviews around best practice in conducting assessments.
Published March 2024
Type: Helplines insights
This briefing uses insights from Childline counselling sessions and NSPCC Helpline contacts to highlight the challenges young people face in relation to their sexuality or gender identity.
Published February 2024
Type: Statistics
Briefing provides a summary of statistics about child sexual abuse in the UK to help professionals, and the organisations they work for, make evidence-based decisions.
Published February 2024
Type: Practical guidance
Read the transcripts for Recommendations for Change, an NSPCC Learning Podcast series about the IICSA final recommendations.
Published February 2024
Summary of key issues and learning for improved practice when working with d/Deaf children and children who have disabilities.
Published February 2024
Type: Helplines insights
Insight from Childline counselling sessions and NSPCC Helpline contacts on the challenges young people face in accessing and undergoing in-patient mental health care.
Published February 2024
Type: CASPAR briefing
A summary of the Panel’s annual report looking at learning from serious incidents, rapid reviews, local child safeguarding practice reviews, national reviews and thematic analysis in 2022/23.
Published January 2024
Type: Statistics
Explores the data and statistics available about looked after children, their experiences while in care and their outcomes to help professionals make evidence-based decisions.
Published January 2024
Type: Practical guidance
Details guidance and legislation that sets out the safeguarding responsibilities of schools and colleges in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Published January 2024
Lessons from a sample of case reviews published between 2016 and 2023, which have highlighted lessons for returning children home from care.
Published January 2024
Type: CASPAR briefing
Summary of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s reports into safeguarding children with disabilities and complex health needs in residential settings.
Published January 2024
Type: Statistics
Our factsheet explores issues to consider when looking at service data, self-report data, trends and statistics across different areas in relation to child abuse.
Published January 2024
Type: Practical guidance
Our resources for organisations and schools, children and young people, and parents and carers will help you improve your practice and keep children safe online.
Published December 2023
Type: Leaflets and posters
We have a variety of leaflets and resources which you can share with parents and carers to provide useful information and help make conversations about keeping their child safe easier.
Published December 2023
Type: Practical guidance
Provides information on how to recognise, respond to and prevent abuse from people in a position of authority such as teachers, care workers and doctors.
Published December 2023
Type: CASPAR briefing
A summary of the updates and changes made to the statutory safeguarding guidance for England in December 2023.
Published December 2023
Lessons from case reviews published between 2022 and 2023, where parental substance use was a key factor.
Published December 2023
Type: Practical guidance
Published October 2023
Type: Practical guidance
Guidance for schools around ensuring children and young people are safely dropped off and picked up from school.
Published October 2023
Type: CASPAR briefing
Summary of key findings from a thematic analysis of multi-agency safeguarding in Wales.
Published October 2023
Type: CASPAR briefing
Summary of After-school clubs, community activities and tuition safeguarding guidance for providers: CASPAR briefing
Published September 2023
Type: Practical guidance
Our free resource is designed to help you support young people in designing and leading their own campaign around online bullying. Find out more about how the toolkit.
Published September 2023
Type: Practical guidance
Guidance to help organisations understand the principles of keeping and managing records about child protection concerns.
Published August 2023
We reviewed published case reviews where child sexual exploitation was a factor to highlight the key issues and share learning to improve practice.
Published August 2023
Type: Helplines insights
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.
Published July 2023
Type: Practical guidance
If you're new to safeguarding and child protection, it can be difficult to know where to start. See answes to some of the most commonly asked questions.
Published July 2023
Type: Practical guidance
Framework to help local areas develop and improve multi-agency responses to children displaying harmful sexual behaviours (HSB). Developed by the NSPCC, Research in Practice and Professor Simon Hackett.
Published June 2023
Type: Practical guidance
Use these free online toolkits to explore ideas around equality and diversity with both primary and secondary students, empowering them to engage with issues they care about.
Published June 2023
Type: CASPAR briefing
Summary of reflections and recommendations from a review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland.
Published May 2023
Type: CASPAR briefing
A summary of IICSA’s final report into child sexual abuse and exploitation in England and Wales, and government responses to the recommendations made.
Published May 2023
This learning from case reviews briefing looks at case reviews published between 2021 and 2022, where children were struggling with their mental health.
Published April 2023
Learning from case reviews around working with families where parents or carers have mental health problems.
Published March 2023
Lessons from case reviews published since 2018 where children aged two or under were the subject of the review.
Published February 2023
Lessons from case reviews published between 2020 and 2022, which have highlighted lessons for the education sector to improve safeguarding practice.
Published February 2023
Type: CASPAR briefing
Summary of key points from three documents published by the Department for Education (DfE) with proposals to reform children’s social care in England.
Published January 2023
Type: Practical guidance
Explains what researchers need to consider when involving children in their research and includes information on ethics in child research and identifying potential risks.
Published December 2022
Type: CASPAR briefing
Annual overview of learning for practice based on analysis of serious incidents in England in 2021.
Published December 2022
Type: CASPAR briefing
Summary of DfE's report covering the history and learning from the periodic overview reviews of SCRs 1998-2019.
Published December 2022
Type: CASPAR briefing
An overview of key messages from the DfE's analysis of serious case reviews (SCRs) in England between April 2017 and September 2019.
Published December 2022
Lessons from case reviews published between 2021 and 2022 where neglect was a key factor.
Published October 2022
Lessons from case reviews published between 2015 and 2022, where online harm or abuse was a key factor.
Published October 2022
Type: CASPAR briefing
A summary of the Children Safeguarding Practice Review Panel briefing that sets out key findings and recommendations for practice from a literature review and a thematic analysis of case reviews where domestic abuse featured.
Published September 2022
Learning from a sample of case reviews published since 2020 that highlight the issue of professionals not identifying or assessing key men involved in the care of children who died or suffered harm.
Published June 2022
Type: CASPAR briefing
This briefing summarises the findings and recommendations from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel's review into the circumstances leading up to the deaths of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson in 2020.
Published May 2022
Type: CASPAR briefing
This CASPAR briefing summarises findings from the independent review of children's social care's final report on the children's social care system in England.
Published March 2022
Type: Practical guidance
Free classroom resources for PANTS (The Underwear Rule) including a lesson plan, slide presentation, curriculum links, classroom activities and more.
Published February 2022
Type: Practical guidance
Published February 2022
Type: Practical guidance
Download example codes of conduct for staff, volunteers, other adults, children and young people. Find out what to include and how to manage inappropriate behaviour.
Published February 2022
Type: Practical guidance
We've designed a template to help you write a document that reflects the safeguarding needs of the children and young people your organisation works with.
Published February 2022
Type: Practical guidance
Templates for an online safety policy statement and an online safety agreement you can tailor to the context of your organisation.
Published February 2022
Type: CASPAR briefing
A summary of the Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse’s (IICSA) investigative report on the sexual exploitation of children by networks in England and Wales.
Published February 2022
Type: Statistics
View the data available on the impact of the coronavirus (COVID) pandemic on the safety and wellbeing of children and young people and their families in the UK.
Published February 2022
Type: Helplines insights
This insight briefing focuses on experiences of pornography and content promoting or glorifying eating disorders, self-harm and suicide.
Published January 2022
Type: Practical guidance
Download and use our template to create a consent form for your organisation that will help you collect the information and permissions required.
Published December 2021
Type: Helplines insights
This briefing uses insight from NSPCC helpline contacts and Childline counselling sessions to highlight the impact domestic abuse is having on children and young people.
Published December 2021
Provides learning for professionals around responding appropriately to children and young people who have displayed HSB or been impacted by it and assessing their needs.
Published November 2021
Provides learning for practitioners working in the early years sector around identifying abuse and applying professional curiosity to keep children aged five and under safe.
Published October 2021
Type: CASPAR briefing
Summarises findings from the independent review of children’s social care, The case for change, and looks at the needs, experiences and outcomes of children supported by social care in England.
Published October 2021
What to consider when working with young parents to ensure both the parents and their child are protected from potential risks and factors.
Published September 2021
Type: CASPAR briefing
Read our summary of the findings from the third national review by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel for England, on babies harmed by fathers and stepfathers.
Published September 2021
Type: CASPAR briefing
Read a summary about the revised child protection guidance for people working with children in Scotland.
Published June 2021
Type: Leaflets and posters
A guide for parents and carers to help them decide when their child is ready to be at home alone or go out unsupervised. Includes a checklist of scenarios to work through.
Published June 2021
Type: CASPAR briefing
This briefing looks at findings from reviews of serious child protection incidents in Scotland, and examines evidence of the impact of reviews on child protection practice.
Published June 2021
Type: CASPAR briefing
Provides an overview of Ofsted’s findings and recommendations from their rapid review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges in England.
Published June 2021
Type: Practical guidance
Use our range of resources on peer-on-peer sexual abuse and healthy relationships for schools and anyone who works or volunteers with children and young people.
Published May 2021
Type: CASPAR briefing
Provides an overview of the key messages and learning from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s annual report for 2020.
Published May 2021
Type: CASPAR briefing
Provides an overview of the key messages and learning from rapid reviews and Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (LCSPRs) produced in the last year.
Published April 2021
Type: CASPAR briefing
Find out what the Welsh government’s guidance around child sexual exploitation entails in volume 7 of Working together to safeguard people. Includes information on identifying, reporting, preventing and responding to sexual exploitation.
Published February 2021
Type: Helplines insights
This briefing uses insight from NSPCC helpline contacts and Childline counselling sessions to highlight the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on d/Deaf and disabled children.
Published February 2021
Published case reviews highlight that practitioners sometime struggle to work with teenagers who are experiencing complex issues. This briefing covers the key issues and learning for improved practice around working with teenagers.
Published January 2021
Type: Leaflets and posters
Practice advice and tips for parents to help them set boundaries and build positive relationships with their children.
Published December 2020
Type: CASPAR briefing
Summary of key changes in the government's 2018 statutory guidance on safeguarding children and young people for England. Includes summary of further updates made in December 2020.
Published December 2020
Type: Practical guidance
Published December 2020
Type: Helplines insights
We look at what children and young people have told Childline about being away from school and then returning during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. One in a series of briefings sharing insight from our helplines.
Published October 2020
Type: Helplines insights
Highlights the issues children, young people and adults have raised to Childline and the NSPCC helpline in relation to children being targeted for sexual abuse online during the pandemic. Includes a breakdown of key findings and themes.
Published September 2020
Type: Helplines insights
What have children and adults told the NSPCC helpline and Childline about physical abuse during the coronavirus pandemic? See our insight briefing for a breakdown of the key themes.
Published August 2020
Type: Statistics
Our report compiles and analyses the most robust and up-to-date child protection data that exists across the four nations in the UK.
Published August 2020
Type: Helplines insights
This briefing uses insight from NSPCC helpline contacts and Childline counselling sessions to highlight the impact of sexual abuse on children and young people during the coronavirus pandemic.
Published July 2020
Type: CASPAR briefing
See our briefing on sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) in England from June 2018 to August 2019. Key findings are taken from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s review and includes key learning and recommendations.
Published July 2020
Type: CASPAR briefing
Explains the definition of child abuse and provides an insight into the different types of abuse as well as setting out general signs to keep an eye out for.
Published June 2020
Type: Helplines insights
This insight briefing uses insight from NSPCC helpline contacts and Childline counselling sessions to highlight the impact of domestic abuse on children and young people during the coronavirus pandemic.
Published June 2020
Understand more about the potential risks and impacts of children experiencing domestic abuse as well as what you can do to improve your practice when working with children and families.
Published April 2020
Type: Helplines insights
This briefing summarises key messages from children who have been talking to Childline about coronavirus (COVID-19).
Published March 2020
Type: CASPAR briefing
Key messages about the criminal exploitation of children and young people in England based on rapid reviews received by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel between July 2018 and March 2019.
Published March 2020
Type: CASPAR briefing
Key messages from the DfE's analysis of serious case reviews (SCRs) conducted in England.
Published March 2020
Type: CASPAR briefing
Summarises key messages from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel's first annual review about serious safeguarding incidents in England.
Published February 2020
Type: Practical guidance
Example role description for nominated child protection lead, also known as Designated Safeguarding Officer/Lead (DSO/DSL), named person or child protection officer.
Published January 2020
Highlights lessons from case reviews published since 2017 where child sexual abuse committed by adults was highlighted as a significant issue. Includes a summary of risk factors.
Published December 2019
Type: Practical guidance
Use our films and supporting resources to help young people aged 11 to 25 to explore topics such as emotions, relationships.
Published November 2019
Defines what disguised compliance is and why it's important that practitioners are able to recognise it. Includes lessons from case reviews published from 2014 onwards where disguised compliance is a key factor.
Published October 2019
Type: Leaflets and posters
Advice you can share with parents you work with on safe, positive ways to hold and care for their baby and reduce the dangers of rough handling.
Published October 2019
Type: Leaflets and posters
Published October 2019
Looks at learning from published case reviews that specifically relate to the voluntary and community sector and highlights the key issues identified as well as how practice can be improved.
Published September 2019
Type: Practical guidance
A step-by-step approach to help you set up safeguarding and child protection measures. For voluntary, community and faith organisations and groups working with children and young people aged 0-18.
Published September 2019
A compilation of findings and learning from published reports of inquiries and investigations into safeguarding practice in the voluntary and community sector.
Published September 2019
Type: Practical guidance
A set of recommended standards to help voluntary, community and faith organisations keep children and young people up to the age of 18 safe. Includes templates, examples and links to further information.
Published July 2019
Type: Practical guidance
Evidence-informed resources to help you ensure children always feel listened to - watch the animation, follow the tips and display the poster.
Published June 2019
Type: CASPAR briefing
Summary of the DfE guidance on what schools in England must deliver for Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education from 2020.
Published April 2019
Type: Leaflets and posters
A series of posters to encourage adults to contact NSPCC Helpline if they are worried about a child.
Published February 2019
Type: CASPAR briefing
Find out how these guidelines are used to decide whether a child is mature enough to make decisions about things that affect them.
Published January 2019
Type: Practical guidance
Our It's Not OK teaching resources can be used with children and young people aged 11+ and is designed to help them recognise concerning behaviour and identify characteristics of positive relationships.
Published January 2019
Type: Practical guidance
Published January 2019
Type: Practical guidance
A tool to support social worker's professional judgment about if and how a child should return home.
Published September 2018
Type: Practical guidance
Published September 2018
Type: Practical guidance
An anti-online grooming activity pack, helping keep children and young people safe online.
Published September 2018
Type: Practical guidance
A guide for anyone who works or volunteers with a child or young person who has been sexually abused.
Published September 2018
Type: Leaflets and posters
A story in pictures providing advice for deaf adults to help them find out what what to do when they have child protection concerns about a child.
Published September 2018
Type: Leaflets and posters
A story in pictures providing advice for deaf adults to help them find out what they can do when a child is being bullied.
Published September 2018
Type: Practical guidance
Published September 2018
Type: Practical guidance
A leaflet summarising what is known about the clinical presentation of inflicted head and spinal injuries in children.
Published September 2018
Type: Leaflets and posters
A leaflet summarising how neglect and emotional abuse affects children aged 5 to 14. Part of the Core info leaflet series.
Published September 2018
Type: Leaflets and posters
A leaflet on what is currently known about teenagers’ experiences of neglect and emotional harm. Part of the Core info leaflet series.
Published September 2018
A systematic analysis of neglect in serious case reviews in England, between 2003 and 2011.
Published September 2018
Type: Practical guidance
Bruising is the most common injury to a child who has been physically abused. Find out how to tell accidental from non-accidental abuse.
Published September 2018
Type: Practical guidance
Learn about the behaviour that can be observed in babies and young children who have been emotionally abused or emotionally neglected. Covers the interactions between children and their parents.
Published September 2018
Type: Practical guidance
Published September 2018
Type: Practical guidance
Published September 2018
We look at lessons from case reviews published since 2010, where culture and faith were highlighted as significant issues. Includes summary of risk factors and learning for improved practice.
Published September 2018
Lessons from case reviews published since 2010, where parents and/or children who were not born in the UK were the subject of the review.
Published September 2018
Lessons from case reviews published since 2008, where family members do not have English as their first language.
Published September 2018
Lessons from case reviews published since 2013, which have highlighted lessons for GPs and primary healthcare teams to improve safeguarding practice.
Published September 2018
Lessons from case reviews published since 2013, which have highlighted lessons for health professionals to improve safeguarding practice.
Published September 2018
Published September 2018
Lessons from case reviews published since 2013, highlighting learning for paediatric and accident and emergency teams in hospitals to improve safeguarding practice.
Published September 2018
Lessons from case reviews published since 2011, which have highlighted lessons for perinatal healthcare teams to improve safeguarding practice.
Published September 2018
A summary of the risk factors and learning identified in published case reviews to help improve police safeguarding practice.
Published September 2018
Type: Practical guidance