Childline: Expenditure
(asked on 12th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2018 to Question 130466, Childline: Finance, how much funding his Department has provided to the NSPCC's Childline in each year since the inception of that service.
The department has provided a grant funding to the NSPCC since 2007. Childline became part of the NSPCC in 2006.
Time Frame | Type of Agreement | Grant Size |
2007-2011 | 4 year grant agreement | £25.8 million |
2011-2015 | 4 year grant agreement | £11.2 million |
2015-2016 | 1 year grant agreement | £2 million |
2016-2020 | 4 year grant agreement | £8 million |
There was additional transformation £1 million funding across 2014-15 and 2015-16.
The grant funding covers both funding for Childline (a phone and online advice service for children) and the NSPCC’s National Helpline (for anyone with concerns or worries about a child). Whilst the majority is used to fund Childline, the department does not require a breakdown of how the NSPCC uses the grant and therefore does not hold data solely for Childline.