Counsellors give private assistance to children with a wide range of behavioural problems.
They offer children an adult to talk to who is neither teacher nor parent. Counsellors help children with their emotional reactions to the trials of school years, including divorce, deprivation, abandonment, long-term illness in the family, domestic violence, homelessness, physical or sexual abuse, and the trauma of being a refugee. By next September the charity hopes to be represented in 40 schools in the boroughs of Brent and Enfield in London, Medway in Kent, and in Nottingham. Place2Be was a winner this year of the Guardian charity award for smaller organisations.