UK charity Samaritans is no longer anything like a confidential service

Samaritans has been running since the 1950s, and always believed in total confidentiality - a listening ear for literally anyone, anywhere, no matter who they were, what they believed or what they had done. The guilty, the lonely, the suicidal - anyone could find a port in a storm there.

But in the last few years, 'safeguarding' rules have been brought in, meaning that confidentiality can be broken if the caller is a child or a vulnerable adult. If a …

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