The Lighthouse project, run by the NSPCC, launched in October 2018 for a two-year pilot period in North London, to provide support to child victims from Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington.
It is a multi-agency service based on Iceland’s “Barnahus” model, offering a range of support services under one roof for young victims of sexual abuse.
The first annual report for the initiative, covering the 12 months between October 2018 and September 2019, reveals that more than 500 frontline staff and team leaders in social care, education and the police across the five local authority areas received intensive training and a total of 363 referrals were made in the first year of operation.
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