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Data Provider: Welsh Government Number of Referrals of Children and Young people attending counselling by Area, Year and Sex
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[Collapse]Total10,53611,56811,36111,55911,36411,7549,63310,54512,41112,342
TotalSelf3,8914,2814,0683,9753,9034,1642,9762,4392,9312,976
Parents9811,1761,0141,0651,0321,2211,0381,2871,1491,158
School staff / other education4,9325,2835,5055,8535,3105,7214,9535,9766,9727,002
Social services991171051021808481848490
Health (GP, Hospital, School Nurse etc)432387357303594270204174657165
Prefer not to say1922642461358457*201**
Not Known65766126453321020736264
Other.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable219204171177582684
[Collapse]Total8,34311,5689,53711,55911,36411,7549,64510,54512,41112,342
TotalSpecialist CAMHSChild and Adolescent Mental Health Services435513402411396393324363438354
Child Protection222264159240171132132147327363
Other498465555597537555303597600468
None7,15210,2398,3829,8289,84010,6028,2839,14710,93811,025
Not Known39873948042372603291105132

Metadata

Title

Number of children and young people attending counselling by referral, Local Authority, Gender and Year

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

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 322 children 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

Name

SCHS0506