experienced staff supported by a robust clinical supervision structure and child protection structure, aimed to improve the emotional resilience and wellbeing of young people struggling to cope with serious emotional distress. Due to the limited amount of counselling resource, in most schools pupils were referred by school staff (rather than by self-referral). All six schools were aware that Relate could not guarantee the continuation of the above number of hours to the end of the Pilot (31/03/16) if other schools came on board. As the marketing and word of mouth recommendations continued, Ralph Allen and Norton Hill Schools expressed interest in having school-based counselling. In order to integrate these schools into the pilot the counselling hours and days per week from January to March 2016 were follows: School Day of the No Week of Hrs Oldfield Mondays 6 Academy Wellsway Mondays 6 Chew Valley Wednesdays 4 BCA Thursdays 5 Hayesfield Thursdays 7 Girls Writhlington Fridays 6 Norton Hill Wednesdays 4.5 Ralph Allen Fridays 4.5 total 43 Number of children & young people supported 145 young people accessed counselling between September 2015 and March 2016. 112 used counselling sessions only, 13 young people used Drop In only and 20 used both services. By the end of March, 83 young people had completed their counselling course and 49 were ‘on-going’. With £27,626 from the CAMHS Transformation Funding (NHS) the counselling service in the 8 schools was extended to complete the 15/16 academic year. 4.3 Feedback from School Based Counselling (Sept March) – Key Findings Top Issues were family relationships of all kinds, anxiety and stress. 73% of pupils accessing the service had 3 or more presenting issues
experienced staff supported by a robust clinical supervision structure and child protection structure, aimed to improve the emotional resilience and wellbeing of young people struggling to cope with serious emotional distress. Due to the limited amount of counselling resource, in most schools pupils were referred by school staff (rather than by self-referral). All six schools were aware that Relate could not guarantee the continuation of the above number of hours to the end of the Pilot (31/03/16) if other schools came on board. As the marketing and word of mouth recommendations continued, Ralph Allen and Norton Hill Schools expressed interest in having school-based counselling. In order to integrate these schools into the pilot the counselling hours and days per week from January to March 2016 were follows: School Day of the Week No of Hrs Oldfield Academy Mondays 6 Wellsway Mondays 6 Chew Valley Wednesdays 4 BCA Thursdays 5 Hayesfield Girls Thursdays 7 Writhlington Fridays 6 Norton Hill Wednesdays 4.5 Ralph Allen Fridays 4.5 total 43 Number of children & young people supported 145 young people accessed counselling between September 2015 and March 2016. 112 used counselling sessions only, 13 young people used Drop In only and 20 used both services. By the end of March, 83 young people had completed their counselling course and 49 were ‘on-going’. With £27,626 from the CAMHS Transformation Funding (NHS) the counselling service in the 8 schools was extended to complete the 15/16 academic year. 4.3 Feedback from School Based Counselling (Sept – March) Key Findings Top Issues were family relationships of all kinds, anxiety and stress. 73% of pupils accessing the service had 3 or more presenting issues