Childline Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:11 answered 294,908 calls in 2007, a 9% increase on the number of calls answered in 2006 - but this was still less than half of all calls received. Childline has launched a campaign to ensure that all calls are answered by 2011.
NSPCC have also stated they can only answer half the calls they receive.
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So what happens to the children that do not get help ‘The Forgotten Children’?They end up battered, neglected and even murdered. In recent years the problems from drug and alcohol in the home has soared. Will children’s agencies ever be able to cope at this rate. Even if they do become involved it is usually too late, the children have suffered horribly as we read all too often in the press.
Grandparents are special to their grandchildren and normally would give everything they have got to make sure their grandchildren are safe. The governments say grandparents are important to children but still refuse them the right to protect them. Must a lot more children suffer mental, emotional, physical or sexual abuse or worse because the government won’t give grandparents the right to have contact of a few hours a month and able to send emails phone calls cards and letters and presents. In fact a unique helpline for their grandchildren children?
Grandparents by law are irrelevant persons in their grandchildren’
We need an investigation into why the obvious persons (grandparents)
Our grandchildren desperately need it.
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Jimmy Deuchars
Grandparents Apart Self Help Group Scotland
22 Alness Crescent
Glasgow G52 1PJ
0141 882 5658
www.grandparentsapart.co.uk
