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 launched our strategy that will shape our work to prevent child sexual abuse between now and 2025.
We have big ambitions, and The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is not a huge charity. So, are we trying to do too much? We don’t think so.
We are in a unique position. We deliver a wide range of services throughout the UK and are supporting developments across the world.
Our Stop It Now! helpline is the largest of its kind in the world for people who are looking for advice on child sexual abuse prevention. More than 6,000 people contact us each year looking for support in relation to preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. Almost half of whom are people who have abused, or those with the potential to abuse, looking to manage the thoughts or feelings they have towards children. Tens of thousands of people use our online resources because they are struggling with sexual behaviour that can put children at risk. We assess hundreds of adults and adolescents each year who have been charged with sexual offences and provide groupwork interventions to several hundred more.
All of our pioneering work is supported by a psychology team that ensures everything we do meets the highest professional and ethical standards; our interventions and approaches are informed by current scientific evidence.
We have access to some of the most important data in the child sexual abuse prevention field and while we already analyse what we do, to ensure that our work is robust and that impact can be evidenced, we must do more.
With the support of others, we could conduct additional research that betters our understanding of child sexual abuse and what we need to do to eradicate this social problem. This could be better understanding the processes by which adults abuse children online, so that we can use technology more effectively to disrupt the activities of those who abuse children. Or it could be understanding the contextual drivers of abuse in organisations where sexual abuse happens. Or it could be learning about how we more effectively motivate individuals who are worried about their sexual feelings towards children so they can take the first step forward and ask for help before abuse occurs.
And by advancing our knowledge and understanding, we will be better able to educate policymakers and the public, and to build new partnerships that will drive forward innovation in protecting children.
Together we can lead the way and demonstrate that child sexual abuse is preventable, not inevitable.
Deborah Denis CEO
We need your help to make our vision a reality. Please support our work.
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.