January Thank You 2025

2025 is looking for children... to you Thanks safer and happier

Childline:

Here for more children

Thanks to your support, Childline delivered almost 188,000 counselling sessions last year. You helped create safe spaces for young people to talk about their worries, including mental health, difficulties at school and family relationships.

Some of the worries and problems children talk about today - online bullying, pressures of social media - didn’t even exist when Childline began 38 years ago.

“Thank you… for being the first place to actually listen to me, just having someone listen has helped so much.”

Young person, 17

Safe spaces for Relationships: Hi

Talk

Hello

sensitive conversations

How can young people understand healthy behaviours in relationships? How can they get help from a trusted adult if they need it?

Over 4,000 Talk Relationship courses have been completed by teachers since September 2022. Teachers have also downloaded 30,500 lesson plans, helping young people to feel confident about exploring sensitive topics.

Many young people are learning about relationships, sex and sexuality on social media, search engines and websites.

During 2024, we received over 800 registration forms for our Talk Relationships Whole School Approach framework from UK schools. With your support, we aim to get even more teachers and pupils involved in 2025.

“I am more comfortable with delivering sex and relationships curriculum and more confident in how to respond to difficult questions.”

Teacher

Talk

More ways to stay safe

PANTS: from sexual abuse

Since we launched PANTS, parents have had over 7 million conversations with their children to help keep them safe. Last year, we sold almost 21,800 Pantosaurus books and our Talk PANTS film had almost 5 million views.

With your support we’ll continue to take our message far and wide to reach more children. In 2025, you’ll help us grow our resources for teachers too, so they have age-appropriate lesson plans, presentations and activities.

“ Talk Pants and stay safe like me, Pantosaurus”

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“I found it so empowering to have these really clear messages to use with my five-year-old.”

Parent

Your support helps to protect all children. With information and resources accessible to everyone, here are more ways children are saying thank you for your support!