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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 Sex
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[Collapse]Total10,53311,56811,33711,55911,28011,6619,63610,54512,41112,36313,935
TotalYear 63754894805465555554476787086061,095
Year 71,2151,4131,4611,6771,6081,5841,1101,2781,3471,4161,866
Year 81,7431,8811,9622,0822,0252,0671,5451,7731,9561,9892,418
Year 92,1392,1812,1632,2322,1872,3431,7701,8692,3642,1992,595
Year 102,2622,4902,3252,1812,1152,2921,9112,0582,5052,2802,583
Year 111,8602,0761,9591,8181,7101,8721,7941,5121,9891,8782,118
Year 12531492438471513405465645447501567
Year 13318360339369345348306447411345348
Not Known931862101802191952882826841,149348
[Expand]Total10,28411,56511,36111,55911,28011,6619,63610,54512,41112,36313,935
[Expand]How many of the young people had SEN?Special Educational Needs.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable1,4341,3621,2871,2931,0081,0411,2391,2391,449
[Expand]How many children and young people had disabilities.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable438573534633468369558621774
[Expand]How many of the young people were looked after by the authority?411492531492402414306288372312390

Metadata

Title

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

Last update

27 March 2025 27 March 2025

Next update

March 2026

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