Govt announces €45,000 grant to Childline
The Minister for Children, Mary Hanafin, has announced that the Government will fund a review of the Childline service with a grant of €45,000.
Childline, which is run by the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, received more than 735,000 calls to its helplines last year.
ISPCC chief executive Paul Gilligan, welcomed the grant and said it will help to provide an improved service.
"The statistics for the year 2001 show that we have a serious demand on the service. It’s a demand that we are committed to meeting, but we’re going to need to review exactly how Childline can go about meeting it," he said.
