What we’ve achieved through FULL STOP

The FULL STOP Campaign began in 1999 as the NSPCC’s way of involving everyone in society with ending cruelty to children.

A snapshot of our achievements

• We have pioneered new kinds of support for children, such as online counselling. More than 1,000 young people used our first online service to speak out for the first time about abuse they had suffered.
• Our campaigning has helped to protect thousands of children from abuse – since the creation of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), more than 166 networks of sex offenders have been dismantled.
• More professional groups and local agencies are working with us to keep children safe. More than 5,000 professionals use our child protection site, Inform.
• Public support gathered since the beginning of the FULL STOP Campaign enabling ChildLine to join the NSPCC in 2006.
• Since 1999 more than 750,000 children, young people and families have been helped by our local services.
• In 2009 more than 80 per cent of adults regularly tell us that ending cruelty to children is one of their top causes – an increase of 65 per cent from the launch of FULL STOP in 1999.

These are just a handful of the milestones we reached between 1999-2009. We couldn’t possibly cover every achievement here, as we’ve worked like never before to provide services, campaign, work with others and educate the public.

For a better idea of what we’ve achieved, take a look at our FULL STOP report .