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Telephone Helplines

Volume 709: debated on Thursday 2 April 2009

Question

Asked by

To ask Her Majesty's Government what funding they provide to telephone helplines for children and adults. [HL2461]

The department currently provides £14,246,621 in grant funding to telephone helplines for children and adults. The individual helplines and associated funding is outlined in the table below.

Helpline

Grant

Advisory Centre for Education

£562,774

British Dyslexia Association Helpline

£86,000

Childcare Campaign

£123,309

Childline

£9,400,000

Contact a Family

£283,956

Children's Legal Centre

£187,000

Family Rights Group

£258,670

Gingerbread

£154,999

Parentline Plus

£1,926,337

Sexwise

£959,619

YoungMinds

£303,957

Total

£14,246,621