Creating change

Your support helps us campaign far and wide to keep children and young people safe. Here’s the latest on our recent work.

Neglect Matters Campaign – Hertfordshire

Over ten weeks, we’ve been working with a fantastic group of young people from Hertfordshire County Council to raise awareness of neglect in their community.

The group were asked to create a logo and toolkit for other young people, teaching them how to spot the signs of neglect and reach out for support.

Their brilliant concept ‘Chain for Change’ contains five key links to getting help, and their leaflet will be shared across schools and youth centres across Hertfordshire. A massive thank you to every young person involved!

‘The Net: Sam’s story’ is a newly commissioned piece of theatre for children, that focuses on the dangers of sharing inappropriate images online.

Following a couple of cases in the city where primary aged children were encouraged to share images of themselves by adults they didn’t know, the NSPCC worked with a range of partners to deliver this show.

In early 2023, we piloted a brand-new campaign called Listen up, Speak up. We’re encouraging adults across the UK and Channel Islands to take a free, 10-minute digital training session. They’ll learn about some signs of child abuse, and steps they can take if they’re concerned about a child. They’ll also learn what to do if they – or someone they know – needs support. They’ll then receive a series of emails with even more ways they can help keep children safe.

And in May, over 1,600 children between the ages of 9-11 years old attended a performance of the show.

As well as the national digital campaign, we ran workshops for members of the public in Newport, Leeds, and Brighton and Hove – including discussions about what stops people from reporting their concerns.