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Cymru/Wales

"In Wales and across the UK, we're transforming our services for children, young people and their families. A lot has happened over the past year. We have announced where our new service centres will be located in Wales, and decided which programmes will be delivered from these centres.

"In some cases, we have already started to deliver innovative programmes, which focus on safeguarding and protecting children from abuse. I look forward to continuing to develop these to bring about lasting change for vulnerable children across Wales."

Des Mannion, head of NSPCC services for children and families in Cymru/Wales.

About our work in Wales

We have service centres in Cardiff, Prestatyn and Swansea, which provide direct services to children and families across Wales. The centres are designed to be places where children can feel safe and supported and better able to overcome the trauma they have experienced.

The work we do in our service centres concentrates on the most important issues affecting children and groups of children who are most at risk. Read more about our overall approach to what we do, or contact your local team for more information.

Find out about how NSPCC services produces an impact for children living locally:

Local impact statement for Wales (PDF, 8.6kb)

Cardiff service centre

Our team in the Cardiff service centre (Diane Engelhardt House), delivers the following projects:

Assessing the risk, protecting the child - a good practice guide for the assessment of adults to protect children from sexual abuse.
Caring Dads: Safer Children - works with fathers who have been violent to their partners. The programme aims to stop further abuse, recognise the impact their behaviour has on their children, and improve their parenting.
Change for Good - prevents sexual abuse by working with children who show harmful sexual behaviour.
Preventing non-accidental head injuries in babies - educates parents about the risks of shaking and gives practical coping strategies for the pressures of new parenthood.
Letting the future in - provides therapeutic services to help children move on with their lives after sexual abuse.

Prestatyn service centre

Our team in Prestatyn delivers the following projects:

Caring Dads: Safer Children - works with fathers who have been violent to their partners. The programme aims to stop further abuse, recognise the impact their behaviour has on their children, and improve their parenting.
Domestic Abuse: Recovering Together - helps children recover from domestic abuse and improves relationships between mothers and children when there has been family violence.
Family SMILES - works with children who have at least one parent with a mental health problem. The programme reduces the risk of abuse and neglect and helps the family compile a safety plan.
Minding the baby - supports young, vulnerable first-time parents to care for and protect their baby in the first two years of its life.

Swansea service centre

Our team in the Swansea service centre, Tŷ Findlay, delivers the following projects:

Supporting children in care - provides a new way to give children in care the help they need through ChildLine and face-to-face counseling.
Evidence-based decisions for children in complex neglect cases - a pioneering new approach which the NSPCC will test with local authorities to help social workers make effective decisions in child neglect cases.
Pregnancy, birth and beyond - a perinatal programme to help vulnerable groups of parents cope with having a baby and set a pattern of good parenting for life.
Letting the future in - provides therapeutic services to help children move on with their lives after sexual abuse
Preventing non-accidental head injuries in babies - educates parents about the risks of shaking and gives practical coping strategies for the pressures of new parenthood.