What we’re doing to help

Taking action to protect children

Supporting the community to change

childhoods

Helping children speak out

and stay safe

Giving children a voice

Face-to-face support

What’s happening?

Keeping children safe in Essex

sexual offences against children under the age of 16 recorded by police in Essex

last year.

1,180 1,062

children subject to a child protection plan in Essex.

In 2016/17, our Speak out. Stay safe. volunteers and staff in

Essex visited

207 schools and spoke to

48,545 children.

With your help, over the next 3 years we can visit all

in Essex.

597 schools

We estimate around

8,000of those

children lived in Essex.

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In Essex we worked with the community to help more parents talk

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2,051 calls and emails

to our helpline about children in need of help in Essex last

year.

1,701 of those were serious

enough to be referred for further help from services

such as the police and social services.

Every time we work with a child or family, we’re learning how to give

them the best support and gathering evidence to help us tackle child abuse

in communities like yours.

Helping children recover

from abuse and working with families

to prevent abuse.

On average, a child somewhere in the UK contacts Childline

every 25 seconds. 295,000

In 2016/17 our Childline volunteers

delivered over

counselling sessions to children and young people.

One in three

children in the UK have been a victim of online bullying.

1,720children in care in Essex.

We can only keep doing all this with your support. Find out how you can help at nspcc.org.uk

Services like

Letting the Future In

help children rebuild their lives.

Our resources

and guidance help coaches, sports clubs

and community groups in Essex to

keep children safe.

We’re working with O2 to keep children safe online, via

our Net Aware tool and online safety advice helpline.