The charity’s ‘protect and respect’ programme, in which social workers provided intensive, tailored support to children and families over a six- to twelve-month period from the service centres, will end. Child sexual exploitation programme to end It is unclear exactly what services NSPCC will offer at the hubs, but it says it will work with other organisations, including councils, to assess children’s need for specialist services, some of which the charity will continue to provide depending on where it considers its resources are best targeted. The charity will open seven hubs in Leeds, Liverpool, Nottingham, Swindon, Camden, Cardiff (serving the whole of Wales) and a two-location Northern Irish centre at Belfast and Foyle, and plans to open two others covering Scotland and the east of England.
It says it has already redeployed 75 staff members who had been made redundant. The NSPCC is offering to redeploy some of the social workers being made redundant to other parts of the charity including new regional “hubs”, the first of which it expects to open later this year. It is also stopping face-to-face services at other offices that include Prestatyn, Warrington, Croydon and Blackpool.Īs a result of the closures, the charity will lose 165.63 full-time-equivalent roles, most of these held by social workers providing face-to-face support to children. The NSPCC is closing 10 service centres, in Peterborough, Gillingham, Coventry, Newcastle, Sheffield, York, Carlisle, Tidworth, Craigavon and Swansea. However, the charity defended the changes, saying they were designed to shift its focus to more preventive work. One employee being made redundant said they were concerned for the children they worked with while politicians in areas where services are stopping have said it would leave young people in their regions with insufficient support. Social workers at sites across the UK are finishing their work, which included offering face-to-face support, as part of the charity’s ‘protect and respect’ service for children and young people who may be experiencing sexual exploitation.
The NSPCC is making 165 roles, mostly held by social workers, redundant as it closes service centres around the country.
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