ASSOCIATION OF CHILD PROTECTION PROFESSIONALS

Registered charity 1190441 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AOCPP, BASPCAN · also registered in Scotland as SC050800 (OSCR)

A multi-disciplinary networking membership association for professionals working in the field of child protection. Provides a forum to exchange views, opinions, issues, research and experience. Provides a voice for professionals to policy-makers. Publishes an online bi-monthly journal and provides online training through local and national workshops, conferences, and a national 3 day congress.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£101k

Latest spending

£119k

Registered

2020

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made an unrestricted deficit of £18,930 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Free reserves stood at £85,666, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet obligations and hold approximately one year's projected expenditure on salaries and the journal.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: approximately one year’s projected expenditure on salaries and one year’s projected expenditure on the journal (held: £86k)

“The trustees consider that the Association should hold approximately one year’s projected expenditure on salaries and one year’s projected expenditure on the journal”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: 21

“During the year the charity paid £nil (2024: £527) to Sam Warner Consulting Limited to provide training. A trustee of the Charity, Sam Warner, is also a director of Sam Warner Consulting Limited. There were no amounts outstanding at the year end.” — page 22

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (18/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Adrian Spanswick · trustee of 1 other charity
Ciaran Murphy
Clare Allely
Dr Robert Ewin
Dr Ronald Dodzro · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr SAMANTHA JANE WARNER
Dr Sarah Steele
John Stephen Myers
Nicola Frances Sarah O'Brien
Stuart Allardyce

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£101k	£119k
31/03/2024	£117k	£108k
31/03/2023	£127k	£159k
31/03/2022	£181k	£167k
31/03/2021	£209k	£0

Common questions

Is ASSOCIATION OF CHILD PROTECTION PROFESSIONALS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity made an unrestricted deficit of £18,930 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Free reserves stood at £85,666, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet obligations and hold approximately one year's projected expenditure on salaries and the journal. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	05/10/2020	£80k	Association of Child Protection Professionals