The free support service provided 250,281 counselling sessions online and via telephone in 2018/19, 45 per cent of which (109,000) related to issues of emotional health and wellbeing.
Of these, almost 25,000 sessions included problems of suicidal thoughts, while almost 13,500 referred to self-harm.
These two issues feature prominently in the list of the top 10 reasons for calls from young people in 2018/19:
However, the report reveals that counselling sessions relating to issues of suicidal thoughts and self-harm were much more likely to involve girls than boys (25,860 compared to 4,392). They were also more likely to be issues for children aged 12 to 18.
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