Relate children & young people’s services support the wellbeing of young people across the country

Relate children & young people’s services support the wellbeing of young people through confidential counselling, peer mentoring and group-based workshops including SRE

Relate is the most experienced and biggest provider of children & young people’s counselling in the UK, helping more than 18,000 children and young people every year and working in around 650 schools

Relate offers a package of services tailored around the child’s needs – we can refer children into other services within Relate like Family counselling

Relate works at the preventative end of the spectrum and is fully linked in to child protection, CAHMS and all relevant agencies

We are experts in explaining the basics of sex and relationships – our SRE package puts the emphasis on healthy and respectful relationships

We focus on improving a child’s relationships, at school, at home and among their friendship groups

Children and young people tell us that they like seeing someone who is independent – not their teachers or parents

Relate puts safeguarding of children first and implements a robust child protection policy which has been developed with the NSPCC

Professor Mick Cooper of Strathclyde University has carried out some of most detailed research into the effectiveness of counselling in schools. He carried out a study in 2006 with the following findings:

“Between sixty and eighty percent of clients said that the counselling had helped to engage more fully with their studying and learning and eight out of ten pastoral care teachers gave the same response.”

“Eight out of ten teachers thought that the counselling service had had a positive effect on their pupil’s capacities to study and learn, specifically: their motivation to attend class, ability to concentrate in class, motivation to study and learn and willingness to participate in class”. (Counselling in Schools Project Phase II: Evaluation Report: Cooper M 2006)