Peter Richards

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Helping children to recover from sexual abuse: A therapeutic service that works

10th July 2018

Peter Richards, Implementation Manager, NSPCC

ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE: A fragmented commissioning landscape is contributing to a significant gap in the provision of therapeutic support services for children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse. Peter Richards, from the NSPCC’s Scale-Up Unit, explores the impact this has on children and the work that the NPSCC is undertaking to share an evidence-based therapeutic recovery service with organisations such as the Durham Child Advocacy Centre, to help more children rebuild their lives.

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Implementation Manager, NSPCC
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Peter Richards is an implementation manager in the NSPCC’s Scale-up Unit. He and his team work in collaboration with partners across a number of sectors, including social care, the police, criminal justice, education, the private sector, health and voluntary sectors to promote and support innovative and evidence-based practice to protect children from experiencing abuse or neglect and help them to recover. He has previously worked in the NSPCC’s service development team, policy team and as a counsellor for ChildLine. Before moving to the 3rd sector, Peter worked for BT on a major change programme with the NHS.