As part of the Now I Know programme being run by the NSPCC, more than 4,500 “ChildLine Champions” will teach children between the ages of nine and 11 about abuse, neglect and what to do if it's happening to them.
The charity says that on average two children in every primary class have suffered some form of abuse or neglect.
News of the campaign comes the day before the serious case review into the death of Daniel Pelka is due to be published by Coventry’s Local Safeguarding Children Board.
Four-year-old Daniel was beaten, starved and poisoned by his mother and her partner, who hid the abuse by claiming he had an eating disorder.
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