The NSPCC is contacted an average of 55 times a day by adults worried about neglect, the charity’s latest figures reveal.
In 2017-18 the NSPCC Helpline, a service run by child protection professionals including social workers, teachers and health specialists, handled nearly 20,000 calls about child neglect, a third of all contacts to the NSPCC.
Almost three quarters (73 per cent) of neglect reports were serious enough to be referred to children services and the police for further investigation, the charity said.
Hundreds of the calls relating to child neglect made to the NSPCC Helpline were received over the 12 days of Christmas, leading the charity to launch its ‘Light for Every Childhood’ Christmas appeal.
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