A Wonderful Childrens Charity (NSPCC: National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)

Member Name: Brooke3

Product:	NSPCC: National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Date:	29/10/08 (39 review reads)
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Advantages: helps children, provides services

Disadvantages: none

The NSPCC is in my opinion one of the best charities in the UK. Of course that means they're up there with about 100 others that I think are great but that doesn't take away from their greatness, it just means that we're fortunate in this country to have so many charities who do such amazing work.
Five years ago I couldn't have told you much about what the NSPCC do. I watched their adverts and was moved by them, I used their website to help me complete essays on child abuse but I never really thought about what else it is they do to stop child abuse.
Of course raising awareness of child abuse issues and educating people about child abuse is an important part of their work but what I hadn't realised is that they do a lot of work directly with children and their families. Work that in my opinion should be funded by the government. It is a shame on our country that we have to have voluntary organisations stepping in to provide services that should be a priority for the government.
The NSPCC have a vast number of different services all around the country working with children and their families. They have services that provide support for families after a child has been abused, services that help families where the children are at high risk of being abused, services that work with children who display sexually harmful behaviour, services that investigate alleged perpetrators of sexual abuse, services that offer therapy to survivors of abuse and of course they have three helplines; childline providing support for children and young people, the helpline for adults to call and the Child Trafficking Advice and Information Line.
Child protection is the UK would not be where it is without the great work of the NSPCC. I think that the work they do directly with children is inspiring and life changing for those recieving the services. They provide useful training to professionals which I think is very valuable and the information available on NSPCC inform is possibly the best database on childabuse on the internet that I've come accross.
Like all charities they do have to spend a lot of money on fundraising and I don't like that so much. I would much rather the money was going on direct services or raising awareness of child abuse issues and campaigning which I think is equally as important. However, I think this is a problem with our society that so much money has to go into persuading people to support charities rather than a problem with the charity.

Summary: A childrens charity providing a range of services for children