Editing NSPCC (section)

==== 1990s ====
The NSPCC documented allegations of [[Satanic ritual abuse]] in 1990, with the publication of survey findings that, of 66 child protection teams in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 14 teams had received reports of ritual abuse from children and seven of them were working directly with children who had been ritually abused, sometimes in groups of twenty.<ref>Libby Jukes and Richard Duce, NSPCC says ritual child abuse is rife, ''The Times'', 13 March 1990</ref>  An investigation, by the British government, into SRA allegations produced over two hundred reports, of which only three were substantiated and proved to be examples of pseudosatanic abuse, in which sexual abuse was the actual motivation and the rituals were incidental.<ref>{{cite book |author=La Fontaine, J S. |title=The extent and nature of organised and ritual abuse: research findings |publisher=HMSO |location=London |year=1994 |isbn=0-11-321797-8 |access-date=29 April 2008|url = http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=157278 }}</ref><ref name = LaFontaine>{{cite book |author=LaFontaine, J. S. |title=Speak of the Devil: allegations of satanic abuse in Britain |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1998 |isbn=0-521-62934-9 }}</ref>

The NSPCC also provided a publication known as ''Satanic Indicators'' to social services around the country that has been blamed for some social workers panicking and making [[False allegation of child sexual abuse|false accusations of sexually abusing children]].<ref>{{cite news|author1=Tim Black|title=The NSPCC doesn't help kids – it harms them|url=http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/11050|access-date=1 August 2015|work=[[Spiked (magazine)|Spiked]]|date=5 September 2011}}</ref> The most prominent of these cases was in [[Rochdale]] in 1990 when up to twenty<ref>{{cite news |url=http://menmedia.co.uk/middletonguardian/news/s/508066_satanic_abuse_the_truth_at_last_ |title=Satanic abuse: The truth at last |newspaper=Middleton Guardian |author=Jeni Harvey |date=14 January 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009121020/http://menmedia.co.uk/middletonguardian/news/s/508066_satanic_abuse_the_truth_at_last_ |archive-date=9 October 2012}}</ref> children were taken from their homes and parents after social services believed them to be involved in satanic or occult ritual abuse. The allegations were later found to be false. The case was the subject of a BBC documentary which featured recordings of the interviews made by NSPCC social workers, revealing that flawed techniques and [[leading questions]] were used to gain evidence of abuse from the children. The documentary claimed that the social services were wrongly convinced, by organisations such as the NSPCC, that abuse was occurring and so rife that they made allegations before any evidence was considered.<ref name=bbc-20060109>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/real_story/4595158.stm |title=When Satan came to town |publisher=BBC |date=9 January 2006 |access-date=3 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/154 | title = A full stop to the Satanic panic | work = Spiked | author = Cummings, Dolan | date = 12 January 2006 | access-date = 19 September 2007}}</ref>

In 1999, an advert released by the NSPCC "warning" of the risk of children being murdered by strangers was criticised as a [[fear-mongering]] fundraising tactic, as such occurrences are exceedingly uncommon.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/1999/aug/08/foodanddrink.childprotection Why this NSPCC advert is harmful to children]. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 21 November 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.sirc.org/media/mediaaugust1399.html A Stranger Danger]. Sirc.org. Retrieved 21 November 2011.</ref>