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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 3.1. TO PROTECT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, AND IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN, FROM SUFFERING, OR LIKELIHOOD OF SUFFERING, SIGNIFICANT HARM, ILL-TREATMENT, IMPAIRMENT OF HEALTH OR IMPAIRMENT OF DEVELOPMENT BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND PROMOTION OF ANY METHODS, SERVICES AND FACILITIES CALCULATED TO SAFEGUARD AND PROMOTE THEIR WELFARE. 3.2. TO EDUCATE AND INFORM THE PUBLIC AT LARGE AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THOSE PERSONS PROFESSIONALLY WORKING IN ANY RELEVANT FIELD IN ALL ASPECTS AND EFFECTS OF ABUSE AND NEGLECT ON CHILDREN AND ADULTS.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

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

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONALS CONCERNED WITH LANGUAGE IMPAIRED CHILDREN.

• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONALS CONCERNED WITH LANGUAGE IMPAIRED CHILDREN income £35k
• THE ASSOCIATION OF SAFEGUARDING PARTNERS income £95k
• THE CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES' CONSORTIUM income £349k
• THE FOUNDATION FOR PROFESSIONALS IN SERVICES FOR ADOLESCENCE income £216k
• CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP income £6.3m
• Association for Continence Professionals income £177k

Side by side with its peers

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