Talk:Childline

"The Irish service differs from the UK-based service in that it does not give advice and instead is promoted as a listening service." - This is inaccurate - the UK service DOES NOT give advice. Will edit article accordingly jdan 22:59, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

From a technical, telecoms point of view, could any information be added about Childline's anomalously short phone number? 86.136.0.228 12:59, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Nothing much to say. The minimum for an STD number requires 8 figures, and 1111 is quickest to dial on a rotary/pulse 'phone. So it was chosen as the quickest (and most memorable) Freefone number. Rapido 14:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

The "real" ChildLine number is actually 0800 111 111 (six 1s not 4). However, BT (who donated the number -- it was originally a test number for telephone engineers) also set up an automatic divert so that calls on the shorter 1111 could go through. There is nothing to be gained by dialling the six ones, though -- callers still end up in the same queue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The button (talk • contribs) 10:49, 14 December 2006

Free on mobiles
The article says that most mobile phone networks don't charge for phonecalls to ChildLine, but which networks do? J Ditalk 20:20, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * According to their website, it's free from all UK mobile networks. I'll change the article accordingly. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 08:47, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

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This paragraph seems a bit out of place
Some of the second paragraph in the "UK Operations" section does not read like an encyclopedia article. For example, "The tragedy of child abuse is that..." feels to me more like something from a promotional leaflet or magazine article, and "if a problem is important to children and young people, it is important to ChildLine" seems like a slogan more than anything. I'm all in favour of ChildLine's operations, but Wikipedia is not here to promote them, rather to describe them. I'm too tired to edit reliably now, but I hope someone else can clean up this paragraph. Loganberry (Talk) 01:00, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Online discussion
I don't think it mentions anywhere that you can contact childline throught Childline.ie - People can leave a public message, or a privite message all of which will be answered buy childline within 4 days. There is also a 1 to 1 were you can talk diectly to a member of childline. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.25.7 (talk) 10:43, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

You can also contact ChildLine on the UK website childline.org.uk - where you can send private or public messages and have real-time chats with a counsellor.

Also could the UK phone number 0800 1111 or European phone number 116 111 please be listed in the main article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.31.13.5 (talk) 15:23, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Disambiguation
This article refers specifically to Childline in the United Kingdom. However, there are many Childlines operational throughout the world, for example Childline South Africa. I'd like to recommend creating a disambiguation for this article, or renaming this article to Childline (United Kingdom) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.215.223.160 (talk) 14:54, 25 August 2013 (UTC)


 * When there are 3 or more "Childline" articles, Childline (disambiguation) should be created and a hatnote to it put at the top if this article. If and when there is no clearly "most well known" organization using the name "Childline" then this page can be renamed as you suggest and the disambiguation page moved to this title. As an example of a case where the most well-known entity gets to use the "main" name, see George Washington and George Washington (disambiguation).  See Disambiguation for more on how such pages work.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  04:26, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Misdirected link
The second ref, to History, does not lead to a History page Roy Lewis (talk) 08:49, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

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0800 1111 was one of the first 0800 numbers to be issued in the United Kingdom.
No it wasn't. It might have been one of the first 8 digit 0800 numbers (the other well known one being the former NHS direct service). 81.187.1.83 (talk) 14:08, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

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I feel like killing somebody like anyone I feel like giving up on life and my self my hair has things in it and people bully me 81.101.248.23 (talk) 21:38, 7 March 2022 (UTC)