The confidential counselling service delivered 5,564 sessions with children on this issue between April 2021 and March 2022, and is contacted 15 times a day on average by children suffering from loneliness.
Counselling sessions on loneliness peaked during the pandemic and the national lockdown, with more than 6,000 young people contacting Childline for this issue between April 2020 to March 2021. Though numbers have dropped slightly, numbers of children in need of support remain high, according to the charity.
Children told counsellors they felt lonely for a wide range of reasons, including being left out of friendship groups and social media chats, feeling negatively about themselves, and feeling misunderstood by loved ones.
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