Improving the evidence based on what works in helping children get back on track after abuse
In January 2018, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) committed funding to improve the evidence based on what works in helping children get back on track after abuse. Specifically, the funding is being used to build evidence about:
- what sort of help is effective in improving outcomes for children with experience of abuse or neglect, and/or,
- how the work of an organisation(s) delivering services to children who have experienced abuse or neglect has an impact on the wider child protection system.
In response to this call for research, CORC have excitingly partnered with Off the Record, a free counselling service, established in 1992, working with children and young people in Tameside and Oldham. Off the Record run an intervention aimed specifically at children and young people who have, or are at the risk of, experience of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and sexual abuse; this is called Time 2 Talk.
The aim of the qualitative evaluation of Time2Talk was to explore the perspectives of young people, parents and staff members (within Time2Talk and at other services) on the factors contributing to client progress, the impact of Time2Talk, and the factors hindering client progress.