Call Police on 101 (999 in an emergency)
Note log number and share with the child’s school (if the child isn’t from LHS and you know which school they go to)
Call Children Social care on 0300 123 6720 (out of hours 0300 123 6722)
Be Clear that a child has been harmed or is at risk of significant harm. Give details and log number to call later.
Complete a request for support Lancashire Children’s Services Request for Support – Person completing this request for support – Online Forms (achieveservice.com)
Add as much information and details as possible. Include the police log number.
Preston
Preston East Children and Family Wellbeing Service
Brookfield Primary School, Watling Street Road, Ribbleton, Preston, PR2 6TU
Tel: 01772 539420
Ribble Valley
Clitheroe Children and Family Wellbeing Service
Wesleyan Row
Clitheroe
BB7 2JY
Tel: 01200 420460
Talkzone – advice for young people and their families
Confidential advice and support for young people and their families can be sought through Talkzone.
Talkzone is available every day from 2pm-10pm via:
Contact with Talkzone can lead to a referral to our targeted support offer or signposting to our group based provision.
There are appropriate pathways established for any safeguarding issues that may arise.
Here’s how you can get to know more about Talkzone:
Or, for more information email them at talkzone@lancashire.gov.uk
Stop It Now Helpline
Stop It Now (from the Lucy Faithful Foundation) give anonymous support and advice to anyone with concerns about child sexual abuse, whether this is your own or someone else’s behaviour. Our helpline is a safe space for callers to talk about their concerns and questions.
All contact details for their different ways to connect with them are shown on
the website:-
Call on:
0808 1000 900
Live chat
Use the chat icon located in the bottom right corner of your screen when using
the link above.
Send a secure email by first going to the contact page below:
https://contactus.stopitnow.org.uk
Sextortion: help and support
‘Sextortion’ is a type of online blackmail. It’s when criminals threaten to share sexual pictures, videos, or information about you unless you pay money or do something else you don’t want to.
Anyone can be a victim of sextortion. However, young people aged between 15 to 17, and adults aged under 30, are often most at risk.
How to recognise sextortion
Criminals often target people through dating apps, social media, webcams, or pornography sites. They may use a fake identity to befriend you online. If a person you’ve just met online chats to you in a sexual way, or asks for sexual images, it might be an attempt at sextortion.
You should be wary if someone you’ve met online:
Report it
If you are a victim of sextortion, or you are worried you are being targeted, it’s never your fault, you are not to blame and have done nothing wrong.
Police understand that it might be difficult to report this type of crime to them, but there’s help available and they’re here to listen and support you in any way we can.
Adults of 18 and over
Revenge Porn Online gives free, confidential help to victims living in the UK.
Stop NCII (Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse) is a free tool to help detect and remove images from being shared online.
Samaritans is a free, confidential listening service for any issue.
Get safe online provides factual and easy to understand information on online safety.
Children and young people under 18
Report Remove allows you to confidentially report sexual images and videos of yourself and get them removed from the internet.
Childline gives free, confidential support for young people under the age of 19.
Young Minds is a mental health charity for children and young people with 24 hours a day, seven days a week text support.
You can contact the Helpline by calling 0808 800 5000 or emailing help@NSPCC.org.uk. Their voice Helpline is available 10am – 4pm Monday to Friday or you can email help@NSPCC.org.uk 24/7 – you have the option to remain anonymous.
Other help
Report Fraud can help if you think a partner you met online is trying to get money from you but isn’t threatening or extorting you. This is known as ‘romance fraud’.
