Services in your area

"This is a very exciting time for our region. Our local service centres are delivering and developing new, innovative services to help vulnerable children deal with the realities of abuse and improve their lives.

"As part of this, we are also working with local children and young people age 10-18. We will make sure we find out their views and opinions on a range of issues that affect them and how the NSPCC works."

Gordon Ratcliffe, head of NSPCC services for children and families in Yorkshire and the Humber (pictured).

About our work in Yorkshire and the Humber

We have service centres in Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York which provide direct services to children and families across the region. They 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 get in touch with your local team for more information.

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

 Local Impact Statement - Yorkshire and the Humber (PDF, 8.8kb)

Bradford service centre

Our service centre in Bradford will focus on providing services for children under one, children who experience neglect, children from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups, and disabled children. The team delivers the following programmes:

• Graded Care Profile - a national evaluation of a tool to assess the care of children and identify potential and actual child neglect
• 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.

Hull service centre

Our service centre in Hull has started work on a domestic abuse service for children and mothers. It will also deliver services to help children most at risk, including those who experience physical abuse in high risk families, neglect and looked after children. The team delivers the following programmes:

• Domestic Abuse: Recovering Together - helps children recover from domestic abuse and improves relationships between mothers and children when there has been family violence.
• FEDUP - protects children living with adult substance misuse.
• Improving parenting, improving practice - tackles child neglect by supporting and challenging parents who are struggling to care for their children.

Leeds service centre

The Leeds service centre delivers services to help children under one, and children who suffer neglect, physical abuse or sexual abuse. The team delivers the following programmes:

• 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.
• Change for Good - prevents sexual abuse by working with children who show harmful sexual behaviour.

York service centre

The team in York service centre provides services for children under one. It also helps children who have experienced or are at risk of physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect. The team delivers the following programmes:

• Domestic Abuse: Recovering Together - helps children recover from domestic abuse and improves relationships between mothers and children when there has been family violence. 
• Letting the future in - provides therapeutic services to help children move on with their lives after sexual abuse.
• Minding the baby - supports young, vulnerable first-time parents to care for and protect their baby in the first two years of life.
• Parents under pressure - an intensive home visiting programme to reduce the risk of harm to babies and toddlers and enhance parenting skills among parents with severe drugs and alcohol problems.

Sheffield service centre

The service centre in Sheffield will provide services for looked after children. It will also help children who experience neglect, sexual abuse or are at risk of physical abuse. The eight main programmes the team will deliver are:

• FEDUP - protects children living with adult substance misuse.
• Letting the future in - provides therapeutic services to help children move on with their lives after sexual abuse.
• Improving parenting, improving practice - tackles child neglect by supporting and challenging parents who are struggling to care for their children.
• Graded Care Profile - a national evaluation of a tool to assess the care of children and identify potential and actual child neglect
• Safeguarding looked after children through advocacy - a new programme to provide children in care with a trusted adult they can turn to. The adult will help ensure their voice is heard and keep them safe and protected from harm.
• Reunification of children home from care - helps ensure children who are reunited with their birth families are not abused or neglected again.
• Supporting children in care - provides a new way to give children in care the help they need through ChildLine and face-to-face counseling.
• Minding the baby - supports young, vulnerable first-time parents to care for and protect their baby in the first two years of life.

Our UK-wide services

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