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About
ChildLine
ChildLine is the UK's free, 24-hour helpline for children
in trouble or danger. Trained volunteer counsellors comfort,
advise and protect children and young people who may feel they
have nowhere else to turn.
Over 950 volunteers provide a counselling service, supervised
by a team of professional supervisors and managers. Every day
15,000 attempted calls are made to ChildLine, but lack of
funds means that we are only able to answer 3,500 of them.
What do children call about?
Children call ChildLine about a wide range of problems, but
the most common problems are abuse (both sexual and physical),
bullying, family relationships and worries about friends'
welfare.
How does Childline help?
Since it was launched in 1986, ChildLine has saved children's
lives, found refuges for children in danger on the streets,
and given hope to thousands of children who believed no one
else cared for them. ChildLine has now counselled well over
one million children and young people.
ChildLine provides children with a voice - taking what they
say about their lives and using it to campaign on issues
affecting children's welfare and rights.
ChildLine also provides an outreach service to schools and
youth groups through its CHIPS
programme.
Where are we?
ChildLine's original base - now its headquarters - is in
London. To increase the number of children we can counsel, counselling
centres have opened in Nottingham, Glasgow, Manchester,
Swansea, Rhyl, Leeds, Belfast, Newton Abbot and most recently
Birmingham.
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