5th June 2017

NSPCC evaluation report

The NSPCC’s Impact and Evidence series features key learning from an evaluation of the Assessing the Risk, Protecting the Child (ARPC) service for families of men who pose a sexual risk to children to assess their safety, and help professionals make decisions about actions needed to protect them. ARPC was delivered at nine NSPCC service centres from 2011-16 and findings from the evaluation include: the children’s protective parents and carers felt the assessment process had given them a better understanding of the potential risks to their child and had made them more able to take action to protect them; the professionals who referred families felt that the assessment reports were high quality and gave them a detailed understanding of the risks posed by the man being assessed.