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[10 January 2007] - The NSPCC has joined forces with the Sun newspaper to ask the government for five year funding for its helplines, which receive over one million calls a year from children and adults who might be concerned about a young person. This would allow both ChildLine and the Child Protection Helpline to vastly increase the number of calls they answer. Currently four out of ten children can’t get through to ChildLine and just over 70 per cent of calls are answered by the Helpline, which mostly deals with adults’ who are worried about a youngster. The three-day campaign, launched today, calls on Gordon Brown to provide up to £59.1 million over the next five years, which the NSPCC will match through gifts from donors and supporters. This funding will mean the helplines can answer an extra 4.4m calls and provide counselling and advice to 1.5m children and adults during that period. It will also enable us to take a huge stride towards ensuring every child, or adult worried about a youngster, will have access to our round-the-clock helplines. Further information