We are ethical, open and honest. We are research-driven and base our actions on evidence. We follow through on our words and act with professionalism, show respect and consideration to all and do what is right.
Advice for parents, carers, professionals, and survivors, providing guidance on understanding key issues, responding to challenges, keeping children safe, maintaining wellbeing and where to find additional support.
We offer comprehensive support through specialised training, assessments, interventions, and case consultancy. We provide bespoke assessments, specialist interventions and consultancy in relation to child sexual abuse and harmful sexual behaviour.
Through research, we develop effective strategies, inform public policy and provide the best support and interventions for individuals and families.
Through our advocacy work, we press for the system changes that are needed to enable a greater focus to be placed on the prevention of child sexual abuse.
As a charity, we rely on the kindness and generosity of people like you to support our vital work to prevent child sexual abuse.
By donating, fundraising, or simply spreading the word about our work, your support will have a huge impact.
We’ve just published our annual report detailing key achievements from the past year and outlining some of our plans for the future.
“This year’s annual report is a treasure trove of information on how we are at the forefront of child protection,” said Deborah Denis, CEO.
“It details our new projects and interventions to prevent harm, and showcases how our clinical team supported decision-making situations across the country by delivering hundreds of assessments and interventions. It tells of how our Stop It Now helpline helped more people than ever, and of how we supported hundreds of others through our services to tackle online sexual offending.
“Vitally, it shows how we help prevent abuse before it happens.”
Our Stop It Now helpline: 536 people contacted us saying that they had not harmed a child but were concerned about their sexual thoughts towards children and their risk of committing a contact offence. 279 others called because they had concerns about someone they knew who might be at risk of committing a contact offence.
Early intervention in Wales: 1,199 parents and professionals attended our Keeping Children Safe public education sessions in Wales and we completed early intervention programmes with 60 families who had been identified by statutory or community services as at risk or as needing early intervention with regard to child sexual abuse.
Project Intercept and our Chatbot: The University of Tasmania’s independent evaluation of our chatbot project was published showing a statistically significant reduction in searches for sexual images of under-18s over the 18-month project, demonstrating that warning messages have a deterrent effect on people looking for sexual images of under-18s on adult pornography websites.
Shore: In September, we launched Shore – our website for teenagers worried about their own sexual thoughts or behaviour, or that of a friend. More than 25,000 users visited the website and 106 people contacted us for help. Of the under-18s who contacted us, 72% had not yet spoken to a professional about what was worrying them.
Schools: Our three-year project to tackle harmful sexual behaviour in schools completed its second year. Hundreds of students have benefited from the work we did with 99 schools across the west midlands to address issues work towards whole-school approaches to prevention.
Promoting the public health approach to prevention: In November, we held a joint conference with NOTA on the public health approach to prevent child sexual abuse. Prevention was considered through a multi-agency public health lens and attendees gained confidence in their roles to prevent child sexual abuse having acquired knowledge, skills and tools to use in their work.
Jane Leach, Chair of Trustees, said that it has been an inspiring and ambitious year. “Thank you to everyone who has helped continue our work, including our funders and supporters who share our mission. Thank you to all the staff who work so hard, day in and day out, to keep children safe from harm.”
Our 2020-2025 strategic plan set out our key aims to achieve greater impact and protect more children from sexual harm, building on our achievements over more than 30 years. The plan outlined our areas of focus and our key objectives, which are centred around the three pillars of reach, research and advocacy. This year, we made excellent progress against each of our strategic aims and a full breakdown can be found in our report. Here are some highlights.
We provide a range of services to people who offend, their loved ones, children and professionals to ensure that children are safe from sexual harm.
Our anonymous Stop It Now helpline can support any adult worried about a child or young person’s sexual behaviour.
Our Shore website has anonymous advice and information for teenagers worried about their own or a friend’s sexual behaviour.
We want to stop child sexual abuse, before it happens but we cannot achieve this without your kindness and generosity.
Help us to continue delivering and expanding our services in order to reach more people and prevent child sexual abuse. Please consider donating today.
If you have any questions or feedback about the report or our work in general, please do get in touch.
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Our Stop It Now helpline, self help and programmes are there to help anyone concerned about child sexual abuse. Shore is for teenagers worried about sexual behaviour.
Our helpline 0808 1000 900
2 Birch House, Harris Business Park, Hanbury Road
Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, B60 4DJ
Lucy Faithfull Foundation is a Registered Charity No. 1013025, and is a company limited by guarantee, Registered in England No. 2729957.
We are ethical, open and honest. We are research-driven and base our actions on evidence. We follow through on our words and act with professionalism, show respect and consideration to all and do what is right.
Advice for parents, carers, professionals, and survivors, providing guidance on understanding key issues, responding to challenges, keeping children safe, maintaining wellbeing and where to find additional support.
We offer comprehensive support through specialised training, assessments, interventions, and case consultancy. We provide bespoke assessments, specialist interventions and consultancy in relation to child sexual abuse and harmful sexual behaviour.
Through research, we develop effective strategies, inform public policy and provide the best support and interventions for individuals and families.
Through our advocacy work, we press for the system changes that are needed to enable a greater focus to be placed on the prevention of child sexual abuse.
As a charity, we rely on the kindness and generosity of people like you to support our vital work to prevent child sexual abuse.
By donating, fundraising, or simply spreading the word about our work, your support will have a huge impact.
As you may have noticed, our website looks a little different now. We’ve restructured and redesigned the site to be more accessible to you, so we’d love to know what you think. All feedback will remain anonymous; we do not collect any personal identifying information.
As you may have noticed, our website looks a little different now. We’ve restructured and redesigned the site to be more accessible to you, so we’d love to know what you think. All feedback will remain anonymous; we do not collect any personal identifying information.