‘We don’t offer solutions. We listen, we don’t fix’

Childline volunteer Margo O’Sullivan was asked a fundamental question when she first began training as a volunteer.
‘We don’t offer solutions. We listen, we don’t fix’

Her answer has allowed her to work on the phoneline, taking calls from children all over the country for almost seven years.

“One of the first questions I was asked here was: ‘Are you the type of person who can cope with not being able to fix everything?’” explains Margo.

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