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Data Provider: Welsh Government Number of children and young people who received counselling in Wales by School year age group, Year and Gender
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[Collapse]Total10,53311,56811,33711,55911,36411,7549,63310,54512,41112,342
TotalYear 6375489480546567564447678708603
Year 71,2151,4131,4611,6771,6141,5961,1101,2781,3471,416
Year 81,7431,8811,9622,0822,0402,0761,5451,7731,9561,986
Year 92,1392,1812,1632,2322,1992,3521,7701,8692,3642,196
Year 102,2622,4902,3252,1812,1362,3101,9112,0582,5052,277
Year 111,8602,0761,9591,8181,7191,8961,7941,5121,9891,872
Year 12531492438471519414462645447495
Year 13318360339369360363306447411345
Not Known931862101802101862882826841,152
[Expand]Total10,28411,56511,36111,55911,36411,7549,63310,54512,41112,342
[Expand]How many of the young people had SEN?Special Educational Needs.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable1,4341,3621,2091,2091,0081,0411,2391,236
[Expand]How many children and young people had disabilities.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable438573534633468369558621
[Expand]How many of the young people were looked after by the authority?411492531492408420306288372312

Metadata

Title

Number of children and young people who received counselling in Wales by school year age group

Last update

27 March 2024 27 March 2024

Next update

March 2025

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Local Authority School Counselling Services collection, Welsh Government

Contact email

school.stats@gov.wales

Designation

None

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

The information presented here shows the number of children and young people who have received counselling by school year age. . This data can be split by year, area, school year age and gender.

Data collection and calculation

Local authorities are required to provide anonymised information about their counselling services to the Welsh Government. This data informs the development of counselling services for children and young people in Wales. The data is collected from September to August each year.
In addition, local authorities commented that 322children or young people who received counselling did not identify as male or female in 2021/22. The data collection form will be developed in future and include additional gender categories.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

2013-14 onwards

Users, uses and context

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, as per the given weblink. (2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 Designated Experimental Statistics)

Rounding applied

All the figures are rounded independently to the nearest 3 to protect the identity of individuals.

Revisions information

None

Statistical quality

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, as per the given weblink.

Keywords

Counselling