More than 1.5 million primary school pupils have made up audiences for the children's charity’s ‘Speak out. Stay safe’ assemblies at more than 20,000 schools countrywide.
The programme, which has been rolled out to children as young as four since 2011, is delivered by charity staff and volunteers who have been trained in areas including child protection, development and rights.
The assemblies are followed up with a 60-minute classroom workshop for older children.
Prime minister David Cameron attended one such assembly at Eynsham Community Primary School in Oxfordshire, which lies within his Witney constituency.
NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless said, ‘Children who suffer abuse often don't recognise what is happening to them is wrong. In many cases abuse has been going on for some time before they find courage to speak out.
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