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Forty years of Childline
How has Childline changed in the four decades since it started?
Four decades on from the launch of a phone number children could call to speak to an adult for help, Josephine McDermott finds out about the shift in the method of communication from the voice to the keyboard. She finds the reasons children make contact with the charity have also changed over the decades.
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