Useful Organisations, Groups and Resources
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The organisations, groups and resources listed below cover a range of topics including safeguarding, education, research, online safety, equality law and family support.
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Child Protection and Safeguarding
NSPCC
The NSPCC are the UK’s leading children’s charity. They have been working to stop child abuse and neglect for over 140 years. They are the only UK children’s charity with statutory powers, which means they can take action to safeguard children at risk of abuse.
Childline
Childline is a free, private and confidential service where you can talk about anything. Childline is there to help anyone under 19 in the UK with any issue they’re going through.
Phone: 0800 1111
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)
For over 29 years, since the early days of the internet, they have been working to stop child sexual abuse online. To help child victims of sexual abuse by hunting down and removing any online record of the abuse.
UK Safer Internet Centre
The UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) is helping to make the internet a great and safe place for everyone. They provide support and services to children and young people, adults facing online harms, and professionals working with children.
Phone: 0345 601 3203
Childnet
Childnet is a UK-based charity who empower children, young people, and those who support them in their online lives, and work with others to make the internet a great and safe place for children and young people.
CEOP / Child Exploitation and Online Protection
CEOP is a law enforcement agency and helps to keep children and young people safe from sexual abuse and grooming online. CEOP are unable to respond to reports about bullying, fake accounts or account hacking.
PACE (Parents Against Child Exploitation)
PACE supports parents and carers whose children are, or are at risk of being, exploited, and provides information, advice and advocacy around child exploitation.
Phone: 0113 240 3040
National Working Group (NWG) Network
It is a specialist UK network focused on child exploitation and trafficking, providing guidance, training, information and resources for professionals and organisations working in this area
Phone: 01332 585371
Barnardo’s
It provides a very broad range of services for children, young people, parents and carers, including safeguarding, exploitation, mental health, family support, education and homelessness.
Education, Research, Parents, Families and Children
Connect
Connect Scotland is focused on supporting partnerships in education, building relationships between families and education staff, and developing confidence in parents, carers and education staff.
Schools Week
Schools Week is the leading independent news publication covering schools in England. They report on the policies, people and ideas shaping education today, from government reform and funding to leadership, workforce and classroom practice.
Parents for Education
Parents committed to working with education providers and policy makers to ensure children’s experience at school meets the requirements of relevant legislation and government guidance.
Safe Schools Alliance UK
Safe Schools Alliance UK is a grassroots organisation which campaigns to uphold child safeguarding in schools. SSAUK is led by a group of volunteers with diverse backgrounds including teaching, nursing and child safeguarding.
Our Duty
Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. Primarily, they facilitate peer support for parents of children with what has been called ROGD and they call transgender ideation.
Parentkind
Parentkind exists to empower all with parental or educational responsibility to improve the life chances of children, young people and their communities. Parentkind gives those with a parenting role a voice in education.
Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
An independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement. They do this by supporting schools, colleges, and early years settings to improve teaching and learning through better use of evidence.
Research in Practice
Part of the National Children’s Bureau. Together, they are united for better childhoods and brighter futures. They work with and for professionals in the social care, health, criminal justice and higher education sectors, offering resources, learning opportunities and specialist expertise.
The Family Education Trust (FET)
The Family Education Trust (FET) was founded in 1973 as the charitable wing of the Responsible Society, founded to advocate for social responsibility in sexual conduct and cultural attitudes towards sex so that due weight would be given to the importance of the family and future generations.
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
SCIE partners with organisations to anticipate and manage safeguarding risk, with expert-led insights, tailored training and co-produced solutions around safeguarding adults and children.
Don’t Divide Us
A grassroots movement of diverse people that campaigns against a contested racialised approach, especially in institutions and schools, while upholding the core values set out in their founding letter; to progress toward being a cohesive, successful multi-racial country.
Bayswater Support Group
a UK and Ireland parent and guardian support group for families of children and young adults. The group provides peer support, information and resources for parents, and seeks to support families in navigating education, healthcare and other services.
Transgender Trend
UK organisation advocating for an evidence-based social and clinical approach towards children and science-based teaching in schools. Dignity and safety for girls and young women in public toilets and changing rooms along with fairness for girls in sport.
National Children’s Bureau
They bring people and organisations together to deliver better childhoods and brighter futures for children and young people across the UK. They work in every local authority in England and across the sector in Northern Ireland.
Coram Family Lives
Coram Family Lives was formally registered as a charity in 1999, and operated under the name of Parentline Plus. Coram Family Lives supports families to help them make happier relationships, happier families and a stronger society. It also merged with Bullying UK and TeenBoundaries in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG)
An organisation aiming to build a coalition of clinicians to campaign for clearer dialogue, better data collection, rigorous science and improved treatment options for gender dysphoria.
Tes
The partner to a global community of schools, leaders, and teachers, providing innovative education software products, services, content, and resources, so they can focus on enhancing students’ lives through education.
Education and Training Foundation (ETF)
As the professional body for FE and skills, ETF upholds shared standards, supports continuous professional growth, and fosters an inspiring community of educators, leaders and support teams. They support the FE and skills workforce to grow, connect and thrive.
Genspect
Genspect is an international, non-partisan, interdisciplinary organisation committed to promoting a healthy, evidence-based approach to sex and gender. Promotes evidence-based alternatives and educates media, clinicians, educators, and policymakers.
National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
Their mission is to generate evidence and insights that can be used to improve outcomes for future generations everywhere, and to support positive change across education systems. An authoritative, trusted and respected voice in education.
Parents of Desisters
An international group of parents whose children are desisters. Desisters previously identified as transgender but who came to terms with and learned to accept their biological sex.
The RSHE Service
Provides support to schools in delivering effective Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE). Its services include staff training and support, pupil workshops and resources for primary and secondary education.
Caring about Dignity
An advocacy group of carers, healthcare professionals and parents of children receiving care. Focused on same-sex care. Collecting stories of those who receive care in their own home or in residential homes, their advocates and carers, to amplify their voices and issues about dignity in care.
Children of Transitioners
An organisation which advocates for the safety, privacy and dignity of children of transgender people. Interested in hearing other people’s experiences. Based in the UK, where they campaign for the welfare of children of trans people.
Governance and Information, Equality, Law and Public Policy
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
They are an independent statutory body with the responsibility to encourage equality and diversity, eliminate unlawful discrimination, and protect and promote the human rights of everyone in Britain. To enforce equality legislation; known as protected characteristics.
Sex Matters
To promote clarity about sex in law, policy and language in order to protect everybody’s rights. Promote the sound administration of the law; advance education, and promote human rights in relation to sex and equality in the law.
Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO)
They make decisions on complaints about councils or adult care providers in England. They can investigate individual complaints about councils, all adult social care providers (including care homes and home care agencies) and some other public service organisations.
Fair Play For Women
Changing the Conversation: Fair Play For Women raises awareness, provides evidence and analysis, and works to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK.
National Governance Association (NGA) – For Schools & Trusts
NGA is the national membership association for governors, trustees and governance professionals in England’s state schools and trusts.
Murray Blackburn Mackenzie
Independent policy analysis. Established in 2018, Murray Blackburn Mackenzie is an independent policy analysis collective, based in Edinburgh, with experience in policy-making, research and communications.
Education (Government Bodies)
Department for Education (England)
The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy in England. DfE is a ministerial department, supported by 14 agencies and public bodies.
Education Scotland Foghlam Alba
Education Scotland is the Scottish Government’s executive agency responsible for driving improvement, developing the curriculum, and inspecting schools and early learning centres. It operates the Education Scotland National Improvement Hub to provide practitioners with resources, and manages Glow, Scotland’s national digital learning platform.
Welsh Government Education –
The Welsh Government’s Department for Education and Welsh Language is responsible for devolved education policy in Wales, setting the national curriculum, overseeing qualifications, and establishing guidelines for Additional Learning Needs, school management, and teacher training.
Department of Education (Northern Ireland)
The Department of Education (Northern Ireland) sets national education policy, including curriculum, qualifications, and the Special Educational Needs (SEN) Reform Agenda.
Ofsted
Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills) is the official non-ministerial government department that inspects and regulates services in England catering to children and learners. This includes state-funded schools, nurseries, childminders, colleges, and social care facilities.
HMIE
Education Scotland / His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) is Scotland’s national body for supporting quality and improvement in learning and teaching. It provides inspection and review of education, alongside resources, guidance and professional learning to support improvement across Scotland’s education system.
Estyn
Estyn is the Office of His Majesty’s Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales. Estyn evaluates schools, colleges, and training providers, and helps raise educational standards across Wales through public inspection reports.
EA Education Authority (Northern Ireland)
The Education Authority (EA) is the non-departmental public body that operationally delivers education services, funds schools, and executes statutory guidelines.
Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA)
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) is an executive agency sponsored by the Department for Education. They are responsible for regulating the teaching profession.
Review and Maintenance
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