The NSPCC's campaigning achievements

We campaign on a whole range of issues to help end cruelty to children in the UK. We also lobby for more specialist support for children who have been abused or neglected.

Campaigning to protect all children

After the tragic death of Peter Connelly (known in the media as Baby P), the NSPCC was very involved in Lord Laming’s review of the child protection system. Thirty-nine of the 58 recommendations he made in his report reflect points that we had made.

We’re keeping a close eye on the progress of this to ensure the Government delivers real change.

Over the past 10 years

With the help of our campaign supporters, our lobbying has helped:

• create the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) to keep children safe online
• increase the penalties for sexually abusing children
• establish local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs) to help local agencies, like the police and children’s services, work together better
• create the new offence of “causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult”, first used to successfully convict someone in 2006
• make courts more friendly for children giving evidence in abuse trials.
• government to pledge £13 million more to help support victims of sexual and domestic violence
• government to pledge £30 million over five years to the NSPCC to expand our helplines, the NSPCC Helpline and ChildLine, so that we are able to answer more calls for help.

Despite all this, there is still so much work to be done. With your help we can continue to try and achieve our goal of putting an end to child cruelty in the UK. Get involved  today.

You can find much more about what we’ve achieved in the annual review.