NSPCC

Funds raised from Number Day help support vital NSPCC services such as Childline and Speak out Stay safe

Letter: Support available for fundraising events

Santa’s Smashed Burger makes an appearance on the festive menu

Don't miss limited-edition Santa’s Smashed Burger this festive season

The new Christmas menu even features festive cocktails

Festive treats galore as TGI Fridays launches a special Christmas menu

More than half (52%) of all counselling sessions delivered to young people in Northern Ireland by the NSPCC’s Childline service last year were about mental health and wellbeing.

NI children calling Childline due to mental health issues

Lidl launches ‘Mystery Box’ worth over £100 - in partnership with NSPCC (Photo: Adobe Stock / We Are The Romans)

Lidl launches ‘Mystery Box’ stuffed with middle aisle items

Letter to the editor

Letter: ’Move a mile’ to raise funds and help keep children safe

Classic cars line up for Drive It Day at Glenarm Castle, Co Antrim, which will be held on Sunday 21 April 2024

Classic car enthusiasts gearing up for a day at Glenarm Castle

Over half of all calls to Childline from Northern Ireland have focused on children struggling with mental health issues in the past year. New figures from the NSPCC revealed that from 2022/23 55% of the 4,038 counselling sessions delivered to children in Northern Ireland focused on mental and emotional health and wellbeing (Credit Childline)

55% NI calls to Childline focus on children struggling with mental health issues

More than 100 children in Northern Ireland reached out for help with body image issues and eating disorders over the last year, according to the NSPCC

More children struggle with eating disorders over the summer holidays

Huge changes are coming to WhatsApp messenger app

WhatsApp now allows users to hide intimate chats - how it works

Enjoy a Bluebell Walk at Baronscourt Estate on May 16 and and help raise funds for NSPCC

Bluebell Walk at Baronscourt Estate for NSPCC

The number of extreme sexual abuse content towards children online has doubled since 2020

How to keep children safe online amidst growing online sexual abuse

Keira Aiken, 15, a pupil at Belfast High School, who has written and composed Bully – A New Musical

NI schoolgirl brings children’s book about bullying to the stage

Britain's astronaut Tim Peake gestures as his space suit is tested at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome (photo: Getty Images)

First News: Peake viewing as Tim Peake hosts brand new space programme

FIFA World Cup 2022: Children at greater risk of domestic abuse

CAPTION: Aoife Murphy (right) from Newry, Co Down, pictured at the recent Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, alongside fellow NSPCC Young People’s Board for Change members, Rachel Talbot (left) from Scotland and Elan Oldrey (centre) from Wales

Co Down schoolgirl stresses need for Online Safety Bill at Labour Conference
A young NSPCC campaigner from Newry attended the recent Labour Party conference in Liverpool to discuss the importance of introducing new online safety laws.
Graeme Cousins

Letter to the editor

Someone to talk to about school fears

There is no legal age that a child can be left home alone but it is against the law to do so if it puts them at risk

NSPCC advice on leaving children at home alone over the holiday

A still image from the Childline video

Plan to get boys talking about mental health issues

TV stars Ant and Dec will deliver the online safety assemblies in schools

NI schools join online assembly hosted by Ant & Dec

Natalie Whelehan, NSPCC NI

Executive must introduce law to ban smacking, says NSPCC NI

The tool originally was piloted early last year (Photo: Shutterstock)

Young people can report and remove nude images of themselves online using new to...

New campaign from Causeway PCSP aims to keep young people safe online

Michelle Duffy now works for the NSPCC

Brave Michelle shares heartrending story of surviving childhood neglect and sexu...

NSPCC help to keep children safe online

A scene from the educational play for secondary school pupils 'Last Orders' which will be delivered virtually to schools across the Borough. Image courtesy of Solomon Theatre Company

PCSP online theatre project for pupils

NSPCC campaigner Marcus Hunter-Neill

Stars line up for NSPCC’s virtual Christmas cabaret
NSPCC campaigner Marcus Hunter-Neill, pictured, is teaming up with local and international talent to present a virtual Christmas Cabaret Concert in aid of NSPCC Northern Ireland.
Helen McGurk

Pictured launching the campaign is Joanne McMaster, Supporter Fundraising Manager at NSPCC Northern Ireland and Gordon Cruikshanks, Head of Sales Operations at Lidl Northern Ireland

Lidl customers given chance to bag their Christmas shop for just £1 as trolley d...

Join Leona Lewis at a virtual concert in aid of Childline

Pictured announcing the partnership extension are Angela Connan, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Lidl Northern Ireland and Joanne McMaster, Supporter Fundraising Manager at NSPCC

Lidl charity partnership with NSPCC blossoms

Simon Curtis

Simon urges people to sign up as Childine counsellors

During lockdown one eight-year-old girl told Childline that she felt her family did not care about her. (Photo posed by model)

NSCPCC’s Childline sees over 25% rise in calls from NI children during Covid-19 ...

Basil Brush with a copy of the story

Basil Brush helps children in lockdown

Michelle Duffy

Sexual abuse survivor fundraises for charity which helped her

Calls to NSPCC Cymru have "surged" during the coronavirus lockdown (Shutterstock)

Calls to child abuse helpline have 'soared' during coronavirus lockdown - these ...

Here’s how to keep kids safe online - according to new government guidelines

Letter to the editor

NSPCC: Young people can be lonely at home

Digital safety and wellbeing resource

Julian Jarrold and Susie Farrell at 'Sulphur & White' World Premiere at The Curzon Mayfair, London on 27 February 2020

Hillsborough writer pens NSPCC film

DirectorJulian Jarrold and writer Susie Farrell at the ‘Sulphur and White’ world premiere at The Curzon Mayfair, London

NI writer Susie Farrell brings child abuse story to big screen

Google has admitted to sending more than 100,000 private user videos to stranger...

Facebook to allow parents to monitor their kids' chat messages

Half of British 10-year-olds use smartphones - and 24% of 3 and 4-year-olds have...

Adrian Somerville.

Christmas Day helpline role for Greenisland man

Unhappy child

Child cruelty and neglect cases rise in Northern Ireland

Head of Childline UK Shaun Friel meeting Dame Esther Rantzen in Belfast.

Dame Esther Rantzen greets new NI Childline chief Shaun Friel

Letter to the editor

Childline renews call for government departments to progress proposed suicide pr...

Parents have said that children as young as 10 can be left home alone (Photo: Shutterstock)

Nearly half of parents would leave kids under 12 home alone, poll finds

Parents differ on how old children can be before they are able to babysit younger siblings (Photo: Shutterstock)

Poll: When is it acceptable to leave your children home alone?

Momo.

Momo: children ‘crying in fear’ over internet hoax

Online child grooming cases in NI double, report finds

Karen Walker of the NSPCC, pictured at a previous fundraising drive

This year try a resolution offering real results '“ by helping us end child abus...

Took money from a children's charity box

A child on social media

Charity urges new laws to end 'wild west' culture of internet

Pic posed by model - NSPCC

WARNING: NSPCC reveal children are sexually abusing other kids

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