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Welcome to the Youth Counselling Service...

The Youth Counselling Service provides confidential therapeutic counselling for young people of secondary school age in North Lanarkshire. The service is based in secondary schools and, for young people not attending school, there is some community provision.

The Service can be accessed directly by young people or confidential requests for counselling can be facilitated by parents, teachers, social workers, youth services, GPs or any other agency with the young person's full knowledge and consent.

Confidential requests for counselling are made if a young person is struggling with a current or past life event. This could be family breakdown, death or illness, difficulties at school e.g. bullying or peer pressure or being abused or fear of being abused.

The Service is confidential. This means that no information shared in a counselling session will be passed to a third party without the young person's prior knowledge and agreement. The only exception to this would be if Child Protection Proceedings needed to be initiated and this would be in accordance with published NHS and North Lanarkshire Council guidelines.

The Service promotes the rights of young people as outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989. The Service also promotes the individuality and uniqueness of young people. The views of all young people receiving a service are listened to and are taken into account on matters affecting them.

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