Video Transcript
NAME OF FILM: CHILDREN NEED YOU
QUOTE FROM A CHILD HELPED BY THE NSPCC
I didn’t talk to anyone. But now I can talk and laugh.
VOICEOVER
A child’s voice is a precious thing, it’s all they have to let you know how they see the world. So it needs to be protected.
Without it, they become vulnerable and they have no means of telling you when they need help.
But when you give a child a voice, the chance to say how they feel the results can be very moving.
GILLIAN CHADWICK, NSPCC WORKER
Our work with children and young people enables them to share their experiences and their thoughts and feelings around these experiences, in a safe environment.
Building a trusting relationship with a child or young person, enables them to have a voice which otherwise may not be heard. When you support the NSPCC, you are helping to make this possible.
JOHN GROUNDS, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Children are at the heart of everything that the NSPCC does so it's absolutely vital that we listen to what they have to say.
Not only can they improve what we do and make our services and activities more effective but because they are the ultimate beneficiaries of what we do, they have got a right to tell us what they think. And in the end that means we will be more effective in ending cruelty to children.
SERENA, CHILDREN’S PARTICIPATION OFFICER
But also there is a risk, if we don’t involve children and young people it means that the services that we develop, although they might be good, might not actually reach the children and young people that we need to.
So for example if we go and speak to children from BME backgrounds or if we speak to deaf and disabled children and young people, they can give us specific advice about what they need, what they want, what would be helpful. And maybe as an organisation we might not always have all that information so we might not get it right.
JOHN GROUNDS
Over the course of the year the NSPCC probably comes into contact with tens of thousands of children in one way or another, through a whole variety of different ways.
There’s direct contact with children who have received a service from us, who may have experienced abuse themselves in their own lives.
But we also engage with thousands of children online, who tell us what they think of our campaigns and our publicity programmes and we also run conferences and events where they can engage with us more directly.
So tens of thousands of children through the course of any year have the opportunity to tell us what they think.
GILLIAN CHADWICK
In order to understand a child or young person it’s important to get to know them and ensure that they are listened to so that they feel protected.
Without having someone to turn to, a child or young person may be more vulnerable, feel out of control or forgotten within their situation.
VOICEOVER
The NSPCC has spent 125 years striving to create a world without abuse and we will continue to do so.
If you believe that children have the right to live free from abuse. If you believe they have the right to achieve everything of which they are capable: children need your help.
You can ensure their voices are heard. Thank you for supporting the NSPCC.
QUOTE FROM BENJAMIN WAUGH, FOUNDER OF THE NSPCC
We don’t want to do something for children. We want to absolutely the best we can.