Childline
Facts
11 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- organization, charitable organization[3]
- Official website
- www.childline.org.uk[7]
- Legal form
- charitable organization[8]
Status and dates
Location
- Country
- United Kingdom[2]
Financials
People
- Founder
- Esther Rantzen[4]
- ARCHON code
- 2447
- BBC Things ID
- 0e5f3108-ae1f-4ff7-82a5-0d30be352bb7
- Charity Commission no.
- 1003758 (1991–present)
- Domain name
- childline.org.uk
- Facebook username
- childline
- Freebase ID
- /m/02m40g
- Golden ID (archived)
- Childline-85D3N
- MusicBrainz label ID
- d7f17f6c-209b-4354-9f32-70090c253ac1
- Quora topic ID
- Childline
- TikTok username
- childline
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 20368
- uk_ccuk Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission for England and Wales). Register data: registered and removed charities, their registrations, finances and classifications. charity_trustee is internal-only (persons); no onward redistribution of that table.
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where from?
- Source
- uk_ccuk
- Edition
- 20261001 · as of 2026-10-01 · newer edition 20261105 landed
- Licence
- ogl-3.0
- Credit
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission for England and Wales). Register data: registered and removed charities, their registrations, finances and classific…
- Bronze
- manifest sha256
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- 4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
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Summary
Childline is an organization[1].
high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.
served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
evidence “Dame Esther later founded established charities to help both the young and old, launching Childline in 1986, to provide counselling services for young people, and The Silver Line in 2012, which aims to tackle loneliness in older people.” aol.co.uk · read source
evidence “Dame Esther had by then launched Childline, which grew out of 1986 programme Childwatch.” dailymail.com · read source
evidence “Dame Esther had by then launched Childline, which grew out of 1986 programme Childwatch.” dailymail.com · read source