Childline Childline ChildLine is a counselling service for children and young people up to their 19th birthday in the United Kingdom provided by the NSPCC. Childline deals with any issue which causes distress or concern, common issues dealt with include child abuse, bullying, mental illness, parental separation or divorce, pregnancy, substance misuse, neglect, and psychological abuse. Counsellors do not record calls but write down case notes of calls and sometimes counselling supervisors may also listen in to calls to make sure that they can help the best they can. In 1986 Esther Rantzen, presenter of "That's Life!", a popular consumer TV
Annie S. Swan and "Maitland of Lauriston" (1891). These owed a debt to the fiction of Margaret Oliphant, who was among her critics, accusing Swan's novels of presenting a stereotypical, unrealistic depiction of Scotland. In a review of "Carlowrie" (1884), Oliphant went so far as to say Swan "presented an entirely distorted view of Scottish life." Because of her dominance over "Women at Home", editor-in-chief W.R. Nicoll often called it "Annie Swan's Magazine". She later became editor of the magazine from 1893 to 1917. While writing for the "British Weekly", she became acquainted with S. R. Crockett and J. M. Barrie, whose work