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The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is a UK charity campaigning and working in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to, and abuse of, children. The NSPCC lobbies the government on issues relating to child welfare, and create campaigns for the general public, with the intention of raising awareness of child protection issues.
   It also operates both the NSPCC Child Protection Helpline, offering support to anyone concerned about a child, and Childline offering support to children themselves. The NSPCC merged with Childline in 1996. In addition to the telephone helplines, NSPCC runs a similar online service called there4me.com.
   The charity also runs 177 local services. These offer general family support, as well as more specific services such as working with families with alcohol problems.
   The NSPCC is the only UK charity which has been granted statutory powers under the Children Act 1989, allowing it to apply for care and supervision orders for children at risk. As of June 2007, the NSPCC operated ten teams of child protection social workers.

History

The first child cruelty case in Britain was brought by the RSPCA; the court charge list described the affected child as "a small animal", because at the time there were no laws in Britain to protect children from mistreatment. This case was successful..
The NSPCC was founded in 1884 as the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (London SPCC) by Benjamin Waugh. After five years of campaigning by the London SPCC, Parliament passed the first ever UK law to protect children from abuse and neglect in 1889. The London SPCC was renamed the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1889.
The NSPCC also received complaints, amongst other things, for "cold" mailing young mothers with a "babies' names" booklet containing instead a detailed list of the deaths of babies. The charity also supports mandatory sex education for all children, and has argued against the view that marriage is necessarily the only way to create stable relationships (External Link

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   In recent years, the charity has faced criticism for its stance on contact visits to children following parents' separation. The NSPCC has consistently opposed an automatic right of contact for both parents, arguing that this isn't necessarily in the best interests of the child. This stance has led to criticism both in parliament and by the fathers' rights group Fathers4Justice. In fact, in 2004 the London headquarters of NSPCC were briefly invaded and occupied by Fathers4Justice supporters, claiming that the NSPCC "ignores the plight of 100 children a day who lose contact with their fathers" and that they promote a "portrayal of men as violent abusers."
   The NSPCC also faced criticism for failing (along with other organizations) to do enough to help Victoria Climbié and prevent her death, and also for misleading the inquiry into her death..
   The organisation has also faced criticism for its allegedly increasing obsession with publicity and advertising, for fear mongering and supposedly fabricating or exaggerating facts and figures in its research. In an article on Spiked, Frank Furedi professor of sociology at the University of Kent, branded it a "lobby group devoted to publicising its peculiar brand of anti-parent propaganda and promoting itself."
   The NSPCC responded to criticism about it's spending suggesting that raising awareness of child cruelty was essential and that lobbying was more effective than direct projects. David Hinchliffe, Labour MP, supported this approach, stating that the NSPCC's role should be about raising awareness. children were taken from their homes and parents after social services believed them to be involved in satanic or occult ritual abuse. The allegations were later found out to be false. The case was the subject of a BBC documentary which featured recordings of the interviews made by NSPCC social workers, revealing that flawed techniques and leading questions were used to gain evidence of abuse from the children. The documentary claimed that the social services were wrongly convinced, by organisations such as the NSPCC, that abuse was occurring and so rife that they made allegations before any evidence was considered.

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