What is Childline?

Childline provides a 24 hour listening service for all children up to the age of 18. 

Childline seeks to empower and support children using the medium of telecommunications and information technology.

What does Childline do?

The Childline phone service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Childline receives thousands of calls every year.  These are answered by volunteers and staff who are trained to listen and understand young people.

Young people contact the service for a wide range of reasons such as bullying, sexuality, everyday chat and lots of other issues.

Find out about Childline Online web and text service

Putting you in control

Childline is a service for and owned by young people which means:

• The young person can decide what they want to talk about
• The young person can remain anonymous – they don’t have to give their name so there are no consequences to making a call

If they aren’t safe and tell us where they are, we will pass their details on to someone who can help, like the Gardai or a Social Worker.  If they don’t give their name, no action will be taken – so they can stay in control. 

Contact Childline

 

By Email: log on to www.childline.ie and select public or private message

One 2 One live chat: log on to www.childline.ie and select One to One service

By Text: Text the word ‘talk’ to 50101

Website: www.childline.ie

By Phone: Telephone 1800 666 666
 

 

Childline believes in the rights of young people; to be listened to and taken seriously.