Editing NSPCC (section)

=== Victorian era ===
On a trip to New York in 1881, [[Liverpudlian]] businessman Thomas Agnew was inspired by a visit to the [[New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children]]. On his return to Liverpool, he invited leading figures from the town to a [[Liverpool Town Hall|town hall]] meeting and founded the Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (LSPCC) on 19 April 1883. Similar societies were subsequently set up around the country, such as the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (London SPCC), founded on 8 July 1884 by [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury|Anthony Ashley-Cooper]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Shennan|first=Paddy|date=2017-11-19|title=Powerful photos show Liverpool's proud history of helping abused children|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/powerful-photos-show-liverpools-long-13924057|access-date=2021-02-11|website=Liverpool Echo|language=en}}</ref> Ashley-Cooper was the first president of the London SPCC, with [[Benjamin Waugh|Reverends Benjamin Waugh]] and Edward Rudolph as joint secretaries. [[Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts|1st Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts]] was one of the co-founder of the organisation which later became the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in 1889 with [[Queen Victoria]] as the patron.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Brain|first=Jessica|date=|title=Angela Burdett-Coutts, Philanthropist|url=https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Angela-Burdett-Coutts/|access-date=2021-02-11|website=Historic UK|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Carter|first=Yvonne H.|date=March 2007|title=Lessons from the past, learning for the future: safeguarding children in primary care|journal=The British Journal of General Practice |volume=57|issue=536|pages=238–242|issn=0960-1643|pmc=2042553|pmid=17359613}}</ref>

On 1 January 1887, the ''Child's Guardian'', the official magazine of the Society was launched.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Flegel |first1=Monica |date=Spring 2007 |title="Facts and Their Meaning": Child Protection, Intervention, and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Late Nineteenth-Century England |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27793627 |journal=Victorian Review |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=87–101 |doi=10.1353/vcr.2007.0007 |jstor=27793627 |access-date=2023-12-30|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The magazine was modelled on the [[Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]] and was designed to educate the public on the nature of cruelty to children.<ref name="Flegel1">{{Cite journal|last=Flegel|first=Monica|date=27 April 2006|title=Changing Faces: The NSPCC and the Use of Photography in the Construction of Cruelty to Children|journal=Victorian Periodicals Review|volume=39|issue=1|pages=1–20|doi=10.1353/vpr.2006.0022|s2cid=161106061|issn=1712-526X}}</ref>

After five years of campaigning by the London SPCC, [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] passed [[Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act 1889|the first ever UK law to protect children from abuse and neglect in 1889]]. The London SPCC was renamed the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children on 14 May 1889,<ref name="AboutNSPCC">{{cite web|title=About the NSPCC|url=http://www.nspcc.org.uk/whatwedo/aboutthenspcc/aboutthenspcc_wda36522.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820204159/http://www.nspcc.org.uk/WhatWeDo/AboutTheNSPCC/aboutthenspcc_wda36522.html|archive-date=20 August 2007|access-date=19 September 2007}}</ref> because by then it had branches across [[Great Britain]] and [[Ireland]]. In the same year the Chief Commissioners of the Metropolitan and City of London Police issued instructions that all cases of cruelty to children reported to them should be handed to NSPCC to be dealt with.<ref name=":0">NSPCC Annual Report for 1930-31. London: NSPCC Central Office, 1931, p. 48.</ref>

The NSPCC was granted its Royal Charter on 28 May 1895 by [[Queen Victoria]] who became its first Royal Patron. It did not change its title to "Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children" or similar, as the name NSPCC was already well established, and to avoid confusion with the [[Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]] ([[RSPCA]]), which had already existed for more than fifty years.