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NSPCC research reports

Our most recent research reports, arranged by year.

2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - pre-2008

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2013

• How safe are our children? - NEW
  Lisa Harker, Sonja Jütte, Tom Murphy, Holly Bentley, Pam Miller, Kate Fitch
  
  
• Neglect and serious case reviews
  Marian Brandon, Sue Bailey, Pippa Belderson and Birgit Larsson
  
  
• Provision for young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour - NEW
  Connie Smith, Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Anne Lazenbatt and Julie Taylor
  
  
• Signs of Safety® in England: an NSPCC commissioned report on the Signs of Safety model in child protection
  Amanda Bunn
  
  
• Translating learning into action: an overview of learning arising from case management reviews in Northern Ireland 2003-2008 (PDF, 2.08MB)
  John Devaney, Lisa Bunting, David Hayes, Anne Lazenbatt
  
  
  

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2012

• Children who go missing from care: a participatory project with young people as peer interviewers (PDF, 471KB)
  Julie Taylor, Tom Rahilly and Helen Hunter
  

• Domestic violence, child contact, post-separation violence: issues for South Asian and African-Caribbean women and children: a report of findings
  Ravi K. Thiara and Aisha K. Gill
  
  
• Families experiencing multiple adversities: a review of the international literature (PDF, 2MB)
  Families experiencing multiple adversities: a review of the international literature: executive summary (PDF, 347KB)
  Gavin Davidson, Lisa Bunting, Mary Anne Webb (Barnardo's, NSPCC and NCB and Queen's University Belfast 2012)
  
  
• In the eye of the storm: Britain’s forgotten children and families: a research report for Action for Children, The Children’s Society and NSPCC (PDF, 1.73MB)  and  In the eye of the storm: Britain’s forgotten children and families: methodological briefing note (PDF, 482 KB)
  Howard Reed
  
  
• Key stakeholder evaluation of NSPCC Youth Witness Service Remote Live Link
  Helen McNamee, Frances Molyneaux, and Teresa Geraghty
  
  
• NFER teacher voice omnibus April 2012 survey: harmful sexual behaviour between pupils (PDF, 408KB)
  Clare Southcott and Bernadetta Brzyska
  
  
• NSPCC roundtable: speeding up decision-making in the family justice system (PDF, 566KB)
  NSPCC Strategy Unit 
  
  
• A qualitative study of children, young people and 'sexting': a report prepared for the NSPCC
  Jessica Ringrose, Rosalind Gill, Sonia Livingstone, and Laura Harvey
  
  
• Returning home from care: what's best for children
  NSPCC 
  
  
• Sexting: an exploration of practices, attitudes and influences
  Andy Phippen
  
  
• Still vulnerable: the impact of early childhood experiences on adolescent suicide and accidental death (PDF, 1.12MB)
  John Devaney, Lisa Bunting, Gavin Davidson, David Hayes, Anne Lazenbatt and Trevor Spratt
  
  
• Therapeutic services for sexually abused children and young people
  Debra Allnock and Patricia Hynes
  
  
• Towards safer organisations II: using the perspectives of convicted sex offenders to inform organisational safeguarding of children.
  Marcus Erooga, Debra Allnock and Paula Telford
  
  
• What the millennium cohort study can tell us about the challenges new parents face: statistics for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (PDF, 331KB)
   Lisa Bunting and Susan Galloway
  
  
• You have someone to trust: outstanding safeguarding practice in primary schools (PDF, 800KB)    
  Julie Mortimer, Michelle North, Adrienne Katz, John Stead
  (Published by the Children's Commissioner for England)
  
  
• Young person's report: the importance of having someone to talk to: a report about childhood experiences and teenage suicide and accidental death (PDF, 2.54MB)
  NSPCC and Queen's University Belfast
  

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2011

• All babies count: prevention and protection for vulnerable babies: a review of the evidence
  Chris Cuthbert, Gwynne Rayns and Kate Stanley
  
  
• Child abuse and neglect in the UK today
  Lorraine Radford, Susana Corral, Christine Bradley, Helen Fisher, Claire Bassett, Nick Howat and Stephan Collishaw
  
  
• The costs and consequences of child maltreatment
  Pamela Meadows, Jane Tunstill, Anitha George, Amar Dhudwar and Zarrina Kurtz
  
  
• Estimates of the number of infants (under the age of one year) living with substance misusing parents
  Victoria Manning
  
  
• The experiences of children participating in organised sport in the UK
  Kate Alexander, Anne Stafford and Ruth Lewis
  
  
• Keeping safe: the development of effective preventative education in primary schools in Northern Ireland
  Phyllis Stephenson, Aisling McElearney et al
  
  
• Meeting the needs of children living with domestic violence in London
  Lorraine Radford, Ruth Aitken, Pam Miller, Jane Ellis, Jill Roberts and Ana Firkic
  
  
• Payment by results: opportunities and challenges for improving outcomes for children
  NSPCC
  
  
• Sexual abuse: a public health challenge: a review of the evidence
  Jon Brown, Trish O'Donnell and Marcus Erooga
  
  
• Sentencing for sexual or violent offences against children and offences under s1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933
  NSPCC
  
  
• Smart cuts? Public spending on children’s social care
  Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)
  
  
• 'Standing on my own two feet’: disadvantaged teenagers, intimate partner violence and coercive control
  Marsha Wood, Christine Barter and David Berridge
  

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2010

• Children and families experiencing domestic violence: police and children’s social services’ responses
  Nicky Stanley, Pam Miller, Helen Richardson Foster and Gill Thomson
  
  
• Sexual abuse and therapeutic services for children and young people in Northern Ireland: the gap between provision and need
  Lisa Bunting, Paulene Anderson and Debra Allnock
  
  
• Ten pitfalls and how to avoid them: what research tells us
  Karen Broadhurst, Sue White, Sheila Fish, Eileen Munro, Kay Fletcher, and Helen Lincoln
  

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2009

• Breaking the wall of silence: practitioners’ responses to trafficked children and young people
  Jenny J. Pearce, Patricia Hynes and Silvie Bovarnick
  
  
• Measuring up? Evaluating implementation of Government commitments to young witnesses in criminal proceedings
  Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson
  
  
• Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships
  Christine Barter, Melanie McCarry, David Berridge and Kathy Evans
  
  
• Sexual abuse and therapeutic services for children and young people: the gap between provision and need
  Debra Allnock et al
  
  
• Sexually harmful behaviour in young children and the link to maltreatment in early childhood (PDF, 44KB)
  Conclusions from a UK study of boys referred to the National Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service (NCATS), a specialist service for sexually harmful behaviour.
  Colin Hawkes
  
  
• Teenagers at risk: the safeguarding needs of young people in gangs and violent peer groups
  Kate Fitch
  
  
• The relationship between child maltreatment, sexual abuse and subsequent suicide attempts
  Fiona Colquhoun
  
  
• Towards safer organisations: adults who pose a risk to children in the workplace and implications for recruitment and selection
  Marcus Erooga
  

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2008

• Developing an effective response to neglect and emotional harm to children
  Ruth Gardner
  
  
• “I can't tell people what is happening at home”: domestic abuse within South Asian communities: the specific needs of women, children and young people
  Shayma Izzidien
  
  
• The ‘smacking debate’ in Northern Ireland: messages from research
  Lisa Bunting, Mary Anne Webb and Julie Healy
  
  
• You feel like you're nothing: the UN study on violence against children
  Children's Rights Alliance for England and the NSPCC
  

For NSPCC research published before 2008, please contact the NSPCC Information Service

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