Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-39788

Asked by: Clare Haughey, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: 5 August 2025
Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 8 September 2025

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many children and young people have received support from school counsellors in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority area.

Answer

The total number of children and young people that have accessed school counselling services in the last three years can be found in the following table:

Local Authority	July 2023 – March 2024	January – June 2023	July 2023 – December 2022	January – June 2022
Aberdeen City	328	344	285	295
Aberdeenshire	562	444	330	195
Angus	190	240	145	306
Argyll and Bute	453	258	203	150
Clackmannanshire	78	90	89	142
Dumfries and Galloway	401	315	242	263
Dundee City	298	484	302	553
East Ayrshire	813	713	576	734
East Dunbartonshire	566	443	274	236
East Lothian	325	150	50	160
East Renfrewshire	151	142	65	178
Edinburgh City	745	421	597	354
Eilean Siar (Western Isles)	120	121	112	-
Falkirk	721	71	496	519
Fife	600	722	722	456
Glasgow City	140	210	1318	1459
Highland	929	814	743	879
Inverclyde	173	142	74	95
Midlothian	201	196	181	179
Moray	617	534	460	458
North Ayrshire	379	447	302	364
North Lanarkshire	2114	1830	1366	1561
Orkney Islands	-	-	77	107
Perth and Kinross	300	385	273	364
Renfrewshire	1232	1081	858	997
Scottish Borders	746	556	642	493
Shetland Islands	44	47	26	111
South Ayrshire	354	380	348	564
South Lanarkshire	1411	1162	765	929
Stirling	928	364	295	364
West Dunbartonshire	487	357	207	381
West Lothian	1215	917	727	662
Total	17621	14290	13150	14508

- Orkney Council and Eilean Siar did not submit any data during this period, resulting in gaps in the dataset. However, due to the size of these authorities, this does not impact the overall results.

A summary of the latest data for the period April 2024 to March 2025 is scheduled to be published in the coming weeks.

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