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Below is a list of the various projects we run for children, young people and families in the North.
For more information on any of these services, or to find out how to get in touch, please contact the NSPCC Public Enquiry Point on: 020 7825 2775.
Cheshire
Cleveland
Cumbria
Durham
Greater Manchester
Lancashire
Lincolnshire North
Merseyside
Northumberland
Tees Valley / Teeside
Tyne and Wear
Yorkshire
Cheshire Service Delivery Unit
Provides a young witness support service run by Children’s Services Practitioners and trained volunteers to help children through the trauma of giving evidence in court cases. The team also offers services for families affected by domestic violence. This includes mothers’ groups, children’s groups, work with perpetrators of domestic abuse and one-to-one work with children. Referrals from parents/carers and children/young people accepted.
Rainbow House Family Support Service
Offers a range of family support services to families in Crewe and surrounding areas. This includes direct work with children and young people covering issues such as building self-esteem, anger management and anti-bullying, parenting support, referral summer holiday activity programmes, the Oasis after-school project. Domestic Abuse packages for families, therapeutic workshops for children and families, and Family Support packages.
Tim Parry Jonathan Ball Young People's Centre
The NSPCC based at this Centre offer a daily drop-in service to assist and support young people. In addition the team also runs a young women's group and a large number of sports courses leading to accredited awards, both of which aim to build confidence and self-esteem. The team also works with young people individually and in groups from referrals by the local education service and other key agencies. On the first and third Thursdays of each month, in conjunction with other partners, the team run Planet Blue, a social setting for young people with learning and physical disabilities and their families. From time to time the team hold one-off events on topics that are relevant to young people and are currently in the process of engaging local partners in a number of initiatives including young carers, young parents and families for whom English is their second language.
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SHFA Hinton House
Provides assessment, treatment and management of adult sex offenders. Also offers a therapeutic service to the families of sexual abusers and counselling to the non-abusing parent. Referrals from parents/ carers accepted.
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S.A.F.E Domestic Abuse Team
Offers advice and support to women and children affected by domestic violence. The team also works with men who want to change their behaviour. Referrals from parents/ carers and children/ young people accepted.
Catalyst Project
Works with the probation service to provide assessments and treatment for men who sexually abuse children. The team also works with children’s services to provide risk assessment and risk management reports on men whose behaviour has raised child protection concerns. Catalyst also provide Ability to Protect reports in respect of the partners of men who may pose a sexual risk to children.
Cumbria Independent Visiting
Provides volunteers to visit and befriend children and young people from all over Cumbria who are looked after by the local authority and who have little or no contact with their families.
Cumbria Multi Agency Training
The Cumbria Multi Agency Trainer is employed by the NSPCC in partnership with Cumbria LSCB to deliver a range of training opportunities for colleagues throughout Cumbria.
Partners and Parenting
Delivers an educational programme mainly in schools in Cumbria to encourage teenagers aged 13 to 16 to consider the demands and responsibilities of adult relationships and parenthood. Trained volunteers help to deliver the programme with the help of ‘Baby TIOs’ (Think It Over), electronic dolls which cry if they do not receive the correct care and attention from the pupils.
South Cumbria Therapeutic Team
Offers therapeutic help to children who have been abused. Priority is given to children who are looked after by the local authority or who are adopted. Work is carried out individually, with carers, in groups or with other family members. Methods include play, art therapy, and counselling.
Sure Start Maryport
Provides a counselling and therapeutic service to any parent with a child under 4 living in the Sure Start area. Using a combination of physical, creative and therapeutic activities, the team helps parents to overcome issues such as bereavement and loss, the effects of childhood abuse or neglect, illness or disability, stress in the workplace or family and relationship problems.
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Hilton House
Works with families with children under seven who are displaying difficult behaviour. The team also runs an attachment project to improve relationships between carers and children where healthy attachments have been prevented or disrupted. The team provides therapeutic work for children and young people who have been sexually harmed. In addition, team members offer training and consultation on child protection, attachment and caring for children who have suffered trauma. Referrals from parents/ carers and children/ young people accepted.
Manchester City Team
Works with children and young people aged 10 to 17 who display sexually harmful behaviour. The team carry out risk assessments and interventions to try to reduce the risk of them harming children in the future.
NSPCC National Child Protection Helpline
A free 24 hour service which provides counselling, information and advice to anyone concerned about a child at risk of abuse. Where it is felt that a child is at serious risk of harm a referral will be made to police or social services. The service also offers an email service and textphone for anyone who is hearing impaired. All calls to the Helpline are confidential, except in a situation where a child is at risk and can be identified by information given.
Quays Reach Independent Enquiry and Assessment Service
The service based, in Salford undertakes both Independent Enquires and Independent Assessments.
The Independent Enquiry Service undertakes enquires into allegations of child abuse made against people in positions of trust. Referrals are accepted from Children’s Services Departments, Professional Organisations, Faith Communities and Voluntary Organisations.
The Independent Assessment Service provides Independent Risk Assessments for the Courts and Children’s Services where serious concerns exist that a child is at risk of significant harm and decisions need to be made as to whether it is safe for children to return home.
Tamarind House
Carries out family support work with local families who are mainly black, of mixed race or of eastern European origin. This can involve therapeutic work with children who have been abused physically, emotionally, sexually or racially. The team also carries out assessment work referred by the courts and offers consultation and advice to the local authorities on issues affecting black or mixed race families. In addition, the team offers individual counselling support work with parents. The Team is based in Trafford, Greater Manchester
There4Me Manchester
Provides an accessible, on-line interactive, child friendly, child protective service for children and young people.
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Acorn Centre
Carries out therapeutic work with children who have suffered serious harm or abuse. Much of the work involves one-to-one sessions with children and their carers. Many referrals come from professionals in the Blackpool and Fylde coast area, but referrals from parents/ carers and children are also welcome.
Lancashire Schools Team
Works in four secondary schools and ten primary schools across the county. The team offers a drop-in service at lunch times and carries out individual and group work with pupils to help them deal with problems or worries ranging from stress and anxiety to concerns about friendships and bullying. Referrals from parents/ carers and children are accepted.
Lancashire Children’s Family Support Service
Offers a range of family support services for children and their families. Referrals from parent/ carers accepted.
Meadow House Project
Works with adults who pose a risk of sexual harm to children. The project carries out risk assessments and assesses the ability of non-abusing partners to protect children from abuse. The team also works closely with the probation service to provide both individual and group work offence-focused treatment for convicted sex offenders.
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Grimsby Family Support Project
The team works in partnership with parents to effect positive change by building on parents strengths to prevent and overcome the impact of harm to children. Much of the teams work is referred by Children's Services following an assessment of need but referrals are also accepted from parents/carers and universal services.
Referral concerns cover a wide spectrum of need and risk including domestic abuse, safe parenting attachment difficulties, sexual harm.The team uses a variety of methods to achieve change including Video Interaction Guidance, direct work and group work.We have designed a group work programme called ‘MOVING ON’ specifically for mothers whose children have been sexually abused to examine grooming, targeting promoting safe care and assisting parents to respond to their child's changed needs.
The team also provides a specific service to children and young people who are impacted by parental substance misuse. Named the FEDUP SERVICE group work is the predominant method of working with these children though individually targeted support is also available.
A number of practitioners in the team are influential within the local professional network to improve practice through the design and delivery of training on behalf of the Local Safeguarding Children’s board.
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Liverpool Hargreaves Centre
Provides help for children affected by domestic violence, and parental drug and alcohol misuse. The teams take referrals from professionals or self referrals and work with other agencies to provide a network of support. The work of the domestic Violence team involves one-to-one sessions with victims and children, a programme for perpetrators of domestic violence and their families as well as group work with children who have witnessed domestic violence or been caught in the crossfire. The Families and Substances team provide direct services to pregnant women and women with young children where substance misuse is present. Members of the team will work with vulnerable women on a one-to-one basis to help them achieve stability and make positive changes in their lives and in turn help them to protect and promote the welfare of their children. The team also support children and young people who are living with parental substance use.
St Helen’s Early Years Project
Offers a family support service to the local community. Services include a parenting support project, domestic violence support groups, and direct work with individual. The team also undertake one-to-one work to help children who have experienced abuse or neglect. Referrals from professionals/voluntary organisations, parents/carers and children/young people are accepted.
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Northumberland Schools Team
Provides services in first, middle and high schools to support children and young people. These services include one-to-one counselling, a drop-in called Talk-Time, peer mentoring and support, emotional literacy work, group work and consultation, and training with school staff to promote pupils’ welfare. Referrals from parents/ carers and children/ young people are accepted.
See also Kaleidoscope and Brighton Grove (Tyne & Wear) and IEAS.
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SHFA Hinton House
Provides assessment, treatment and management of adult sex offenders. Also offers a therapeutic service to the families of sexual abusers and counselling to the non-abusing parent. Referrals from parents/ carers accepted.
See also Kaleidoscope and IEAS (Tyne & Wear).
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Newcastle Brighton Grove
Offers a therapeutic service for children and young people aged between 4-18 who have suffered harm and abuse. Services include family therapy, direct and indirect play therapy, developmental attachment and counselling. The team also provides work with carers. Referrals from carers and children/ young people are accepted.
Kaleidoscope
Works with children and young people who display sexually harmful behaviour and their carers. The team aims to try to understand and change their behaviour, and to support their families. One one-to-one work is offered, as well as family and group work. Referrals from parents/ carers and children/ young people accepted.
Independent Enquiry and Assessment Service Newcastle
Based in Newcastle, this service undertakes specialist investigations and assessments into safeguarding issues where independence is valued (This works across the North East and North Yorkshire). Referrals from parents/ carers accepted.
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Almond Tree Project
Offers a range of services to support children and their families residing within the localities of Catterick and Colburn. Services include parent advice/play opportunity drop-in sessions (within the project premises and as part of an outreach services within community buildings), Incredible Years Parent and Training services (Parents & Babies Program, Parents and Toddlers Program, Basic Pre-school Program, School-age Program, Advanced Program and Child Dinosaur School), SMART group for children and young people living in families with substance misuse, Nurture Group, Caring Dads Program, Strengthening Families Program, Parenting Puzzle, Tweenies Child Development, skills groups and a creche facility. The service aims to support both armed service families, who are often isolated from extended family and separated from their partners, which at times can be due to their being deployed to trouble spots, and non armed services families. Referrals from parents/carers welcome.
Barnsley Churchfields
Offers a children’s rights service to children and young people who are looked after by social services. Also provides a volunteers’ service that provides independent visitors to visit children and young people who have little or no contact with their families. In addition, the team offers counselling and therapeutic support to children who have suffered serious abuse or harm. Service request from parents/ carers and children/ young people accepted.
Barnsley Schools Service Team
Works in a number of primary and secondary schools in east Barnsley, offering individual counselling and support. The team runs peer support groups in schools. Early years workers provide support for parents in local nurseries. In addition, one member of the team is linked with a special needs school and gives counselling support and advice to children and their parents. The team also runs learning support activities including after school clubs and lunch and break time activities.
Bradford NSPCC Humsaath
Carries out a range of work to support families in the local community, who are predominantly Asian. ‘Humsaath’ means ‘We together’. The range of services offered includes after school clubs, parenting groups, a toddler group, a one-to-one service for cases referred by professionals, and therapeutic work with children who have witnessed domestic violence. Service requests from parents/ carers and children/ young people accepted.
Calderdale Service
Carries out therapeutic work with children who have suffered abuse, including those who have witnessed domestic violence. This work is carried out in individual or family sessions or in small groups and is tailored to the specific needs of the child. The aim is to help children deal with the abuse they have suffered and face the future with hope. Referrals from parents/ carers and children/ young people accepted.
Doncaster Therapeutic Support Team
Carries out therapeutic work with children/ young people who have experienced abuse. Two services provided:
The team also work with non-abusive parents and carers and offer advice, information and counselling.
Hull Family Centre
The team uses play therapy and video interactive work to teach positive parenting. It runs a child witness support service and has started working with men who are violent to their partners to try to change their behaviour. The team also supports women and children who have been the victims of domestic violence. The team predominantly offer support to parents and use a wide variety of techniques, both in the family home and at the Centre. The Hull Family Centre also offers group and individual work for women and children who have experienced domestic abuse, and protective behaviours programmes of work for children and their parents. A significant amount of work is undertaken with the local authority in context of preventing family breakdown and supporting rehabilitation plans.
Leeds Family Support Team
Provides a range of family support services, both at the family home and at the centre in Bramley. The team also run a number of specialised programmes including a post natal depression group, a parenting skills group, a play skills group and groups for children and women who have experienced domestic violence. Service requests from parents/ carers and children/ young people accepted.
Rotherham CPT
Carries out therapeutic work with children who have been traumatised by emotional, physical or sexual abuse. This can involve one-to-one work, group work or family work. The team also helps looked after children.
Scarborough Family Support Services
Provides a range of family support services including individual work and group work with children and young people who have been affected by domestic violence. The team also runs a number of parenting programmes for parents/carers, and their children/young people.
Selby Family Support Project
Provides a wide range of services aimed at supporting families and encouraging communities to be safe and stimulating places for children. Services include a Play & Lend service, drop-in sessions, a substance misuse service, a parenting programme, work with young children with challenging behaviour and a volunteers programme to support children and families. The team is also setting up a small self-support group for children affected by alcohol abuse.
Sheffield Young People’s Centre
The team provides a wide range of services for children & young people aged between 9-18 years and up to 21 years for care leavers. We also offer a drop-in service for children & young people from 2pm-5pm each Monday & Friday and 2pm-6pm on Wednesdays. We provide a children's rights & advocacy service, an independent visiting service for looked after children who have little or no contact with their birth family. We offer post abuse therapy and a generic counselling service. The centre runs group work on a wide range of issues. We also support the local lesbian, gay & bisexual youth initiative.
Shield Project
Provides a range of services for children and young people who sexually harm others to help them to change their behaviour. This involves working with children and young people individually and in groups, and supporting their families. Service requests from parents/ carers accepted.
York Domestic Violence Prevention Service
Offers a range of therapeutic and support services to women and children who have experienced domestic abuse, including individual and group work programmes. There is a drop-in support group for women, a linked structured workshop programme for women and their children, as well as individual sessions.
York & North Yorkshire Therapy Service
Provides a therapeutic service for children who have been abused. The team also runs support groups for couples and for carers of children who have been sexually abused. Referrals from parents/ carers and children/ young people accepted.
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