"Always there when I need you": ChildLine review: what's affected children in April 2014 - March 2015

Author:
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
Publisher:
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Publication year:
2015
Pagination:
44
Place of publication:
London

This annual review looks at what children talk about when they contact the NSPCC ChildLine. It looks at who contacts the service and how and focuses on some of the biggest and emerging issues of the last year: mental health, sexual abuse and partner abuse. It also includes a breakdown of statistics by age, gender and for each UK nation. During 2014-15, ChildLine counselled 276,956 children and supported a further 9,856 who had serious concerns about another child. This brings our total counselling sessions to 286,812. The ChildLine website received over 3.2 million visits – 5 per cent more than in 2013-14. The top three concerns counselled were family relationships, low self-esteem/unhappiness and abuse. Four of the top ten issues related to mental health. These issues were self-harm, suicide, low self-esteem/unhappiness and mental health conditions. There was a 124 per cent increase in the number of counselling sessions where young people talked about problems accessing services. Online counselling continued to grow, rising from 68 per cent in 2013-14, to 71 per cent in 2014-15. (Edited publisher abstract)

Subject terms:
helplines, child protection, advice services, young people, mental health problems, family relations, self-esteem, access to services, child abuse;
Content type:
research
Location(s):
United Kingdom
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