Since lockdown measures were first introduced Childline has delivered nearly 43,000 counselling sessions about mental and emotional health, with children reaching out for help with issues including loneliness and low self-esteem.
The NSPCC, which runs Childline, can also reveal that the number of contacts about body image, gender and sexuality increased since the first national...
With unexpected time on her hands due to the lockdown Dame Esther Rantzen is indulging in a ‘book-fest’.
The broadcaster and charity campaigner has re-organised her library – she’s given away hundreds of books – and is enjoying leisurely reading sessions at her home in the New Forest, Hampshire.
“I decided it was the perfect time to scale down my library and re-organise it....
