Here are some links to organisations that safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Links to some useful websites :
Adoption Information Line Website - is the UK agency for social services potential adopters.
BASPCAN - The British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (BASPCAN) is a website for all professionals working in health, education, police, social services and voluntary agencies with information about conferences on child protection topics such as neglect, child deaths, emotional abuse.
Churches' Child Protection Advisory Service - This is a comprehensive website for those wishing to promote the welfare of children and young people.
CAPE - Child Protection in Education (CAPE) is a support network for professionals working in child protection in the education service. It is based in the North of England, and its membership includes many northern LEA child protection officers, principal education social workers and DfES investigating and referral co-ordinators.
Centre for Child Care Research at Queen's University Belfast - is a website that is well worth a look.
CentrePoint - Provides information on UK housing for young people.
Child Advocacy International - each year millions of ordinary families are caught up in armed conflict World-wide. The Child Advocacy International are here to help.
Childline - UK children's resource.
The Children's Society - is a UK children's charity.
Forensic Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology - is a UK website and one of two health service units treating young offenders.
Gingerbread - is a UK single parent organisation.
International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect (ISPCAN) - is a US based associate of BASPCAN.
Kidscape - is the registered charity committed to keeping children safe from harm or abuse. Kidscape is the only national children's charity which focuses upon preventative policies - tactics to use before any abuse takes place.
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) - is a major UK child protection charity.
National Childrens Bureau - The National Children's Bureau (NCB) is a registered charity which promotes the interests and well-being of all children and young people across every aspect of their lives.
NCH Action for Children - is a UK children's charity.
NOTA - is a multi disciplinary national organisation for the treatment of abusers.
NSPCC - is a major UK child protection charity.
Safer Derbyshire - is the website for community safety partnerships in Derbyshire.
Save the Children - is the UK's leading international children's charity, working to create a better future for children.
Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society - provide support for bereaved parents and their families whose baby has died at or soon after birth.
Stop It Now - challenges adults to create a society that no longer tolerates the sexual abuse of children.
The Who Cares Trust - is aUK charity for children young people in residential or foster care.
Youngminds - is the national children's mental health charity committed to improving the mental health of babies, children and young people.
