Services in your area

"Thank you for visiting these pages and welcome to our region. It's an exciting time for us as we develop new service centres which will deliver pioneering programmes to help more vulnerable children and families.

"There are 3,023 children of all ages on a local authority child protection plan in the East Midlands (at 31 March 2010). Children and young people across the region need our protection, help and support, and that is what we aim to address."

Fiona Richards, head of NSPCC services for children and families in the East Midlands (pictured).

About our work in the East Midlands

We have service centres in Leicester, Nottingham, Peterborough and Grimsby, which provide direct services to children and families across the region. 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 the overall approach to what we do, or contact your local team for more information.

To find out about how NSPCC services produces an impact for children living locally,
download the Local Impact Statement - East Midlands (PDF, 8.8kb)

Leicester service centre

Our team in the Leicester service centre offer the following services:

• 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.
• 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.
• SafeCare^®  - Helping parents give children under five the high level of care and attention they need.

Nottingham service centre

The Nottingham team offer the following services:

• Parents under pressure - Helping parents with drug or alcohol issues gain parenting skills.
• Assessing the risk, protecting the child - Reducing the risk of child sexual abuse by working with adult offenders.
• Reunification of children home from care - Ensuring children who are reunited with their birth families from care are safe.
• Protect and respect - Protecting children and young people who are vulnerable to sexual exploitation.
• Face to Face

Peterborough service centre

The Peterborough team offer the following services:

• Caring Dads: Safer Children - Protecting children by working with fathers who are violent or abusive to their partners.
• Improving Parenting, Improving Practice - Testing new approaches to help support parents struggling to care for their children.
• Graded Care Profile  - Trialling a national evaluation tool for assessing the care of children and identifying neglect. 
• Face to Face
• Safeguarding looked after children through advocacy - Providing children in care with a trusted adult to help ensure their safety and protection.

There is also an additional centre in Northampton, which is offering the Domestic Abuse Recovering Together service.

Grimsby service centre

The Grimsby team offer the following services:

• Family Environment: Drug Using Parents (FEDUP)  - Supporting and minimising consequences of children who live with adult substance misuse.
• Family SMILES - Working to help families where parents with mental health issues.
• Face to Face
• Improving Parenting, Improving Practice - Testing new approaches to help support parents struggling to care for their children.
  
  

Our UK-wide services

Find out about our UK-wide services, including the NSPCC helpline, the ChildLine helpine and the ChildLine Schools Service.