BACP presents the final report ‘Counselling in schools: A research study into the services for children and young people’ commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government

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After competing in a tendering exercise, BACP, in primary partnership with the University of Newcastle, won a research tender to undertake work for the Welsh Assembly Government to complete a study into the counselling services available to children and young people in Wales. This study was led by Nancy Rowland (BACP Head of Research) and Dr Sue Pattison (University of Newcastle) along with an accompanying research team from the University of Bristol, University of Salford, University of Strathclyde, County Durham LEA and BACP.

The aims and objectives of the research were those of the Welsh Assembly Government. The aims were ‘to undertake an evaluation of the counselling services in operation across the UK in order to assess whether current counselling models used in Wales and other parts of the UK were sufficiently robust and flexible enough to apply widely throughout Wales’. The study carried out the following activities:

1. An analysis of how counselling services currently operating in Wales are planned, managed and evaluated
2. A review of the different models that are in existence considering their advantages and disadvantages
3. A comparison of the approaches offered in Wales with at least 10 models across the rest of the UK
4. The development of proposals for a range of suitable counselling models that could operate across Wales.

A key aim of the study was to look at different models of counselling provision in schools across the UK.

The research was undertaken this year and delivered to the Welsh Assembly Government in November 2007.

This study supports raising the profile of counselling in schools and will have relevance beyond the initial Welsh context of the research and is of value to everybody who works with children and young people.

The Welsh Assembly Government has copyright of this document. The document may not be quoted from or forwarded without full acknowledgment to the Welsh Assembly Government.

School-based Counselling Services in Wales a National Strategy (April, 2008) Welsh Assembly Government

This document sets out the Welsh Assembly Government’s strategy for developing school-based counselling services for children and young people that are safe, accessible and of a high standard.  For a full copy of the report visit:  http://new.wales.gov.uk/topics/educationandskills/publications/guidance/counsellingservicesstrategy/?lang=en