Children's helpline receives 1,250 calls a day

ALMOST half a million calls were received last year by Childline, the national helpline for children.

Latest figures compiled by the Irish Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) show that an alarming 1,250 calls per day are made to Childline.

Of 53,632 answered calls "involving a full two-way interaction", 4,279 concerned sexual issues and 1,968 were related to pregnancy among young girls.