Swipe-card access means the facility can stay open 24 hours and, when the student assistants leave for the night, learning grid users can call a helpline.
The helpline is also available to the families and carers of people with learning disabilities, and to polling station staff.
Mills says: "Our student helpline is there for online students, and we also deal with problems from distance learning students via Facebook and Twitter.
The one thing that brings a smile to my face is the fact that the impact and learning outcome has been achieved by enthusing the teachers, empowering them with the teaching aids, encouraging and mentoring them through helplines and periodic training sessions – and most importantly, by transferring the ownership of change to them.
With its learning tools, SMS helpline for parents, and information centre, the app, believed to be the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, is helping to further autism education and awareness in Ghana.
The original mission of Helpline, which was established in 1992, was "to provide food and clothing for poor and hungry children"' and "to learn the doctrines of Christianity by providing Bibles to these children," according to documents filed with the state.
Learn about the damaging effects of violence on children and young people, and talk to your friends and relatives about it Publicize the local child telephone helplines: tell children and young people they can call 80001234 for help and advice LOCAL LEADERS If you are a leader in your community, then you can play a role in ending violence.
A £25m early start fund paid to voluntary and community organisations will back up Sure Start centres with counselling and advice for parents at home - including encouraging schools to link up with the mothers of infant children at an early age to discuss their learning needs, and a new national helpline service will offer online and telephone advice to parents.
A dedicated helpline for anyone with a learning disability who has questions about casting their vote, or experiences any difficulties in doing so, has also been set up by Mencap, a partner of the Electoral Commission.
Problems can be verbal or non-verbal, an autistic person can have a learning disability or be highly intelligent". NAS Cymru runs a helpline for parents and has a growing network of branches run by local volunteers.
