Source: NSPCC Learning
Date: 03 August 2023
NSPCC Learning has published a Helplines insight briefing on coercive control highlighting its impact on the safety, behaviour, and wellbeing of children. The briefing collates data from contacts to the NSPCC Helpline and Childline in 2022/23. Findings from 01 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 show 4,412 NSPCC Helpline contacts from adults and 1,096 Childline counselling sessions with children and young people whose main concerns were domestic abuse. Contacts included experiences of: threats and coercion; continual emotional mistreatment; and economic and financial abuse.
Read the insight briefing: The impact of coercive control on children and young people
Read the news story: 1,400 contacts to our Helpline last year were about coercive and controlling behaviour towards children
See also on NSPCC Learning
> Protecting children from domestic abuse