Since 1832 retailTRUST has worked with the retail industry providing support and improving the lives of all those working in retail.
retailTRUST works closely with businesses and leaders in the industry to build a healthy, happy, diverse and inclusive workforce. It does this through offering career-changing learning opportunities and providing financial, emotional and physical wellbeing services.
In 2021 retailTRUST began working in partnership with Relate to provide free counselling for the children of retailTRUST beneficiaries
What can Relate help with?
Children and Young People’s Counselling is available for children aged 5-15 of current retail workers who qualify for support via retailTRUST.
Children and young people access Relate services for many reasons including anger, impact of parents separating, bullying, coping with issues at school, self image and sexuality.
Whatever the issue, speaking to a supportive and non-judgmental counsellor can make a child or young person feel happier and better able to deal with their problems or concerns. The approach taken will vary from case to case, and may for example involve play therapy with younger children.
What’s on offer?
Children and Young People’s Counselling
Children and young people aged between 5 and 15 can access up to 6 free sessions of counselling. Depending on the age of the child or young person, sessions may also involve a parent of primary care giver, but the focus will be on the child and the issues affecting them.
If it is more appropriate Family Counselling may be available.
How is counselling delivered?
CYP counselling can be provided by video call, face to face where available and in some cases by telephone.
Who is eligible to access the Support Services?
Children and young people’s counselling support services are available to children of current employees of the retail sector who qualify for retailTRUST support.
The age range that Relate can work with is 5 – 15 year olds.
Are these services confidential?
Relate counselling is a private and confidential form of help. We hold information about each of our clients and the counselling they receive in confidence. This means that we will not normally give your name or any information about you to anyone outside the organisation.
However, there are exceptional cases where Relate might ethically or legally have to give information to relevant authorities, for example, if we had reason to believe that someone, especially a child, is at serious risk of harm or to prevent a miscarriage of justice. We will discuss any proposed disclosure with you unless we believe that to do so could increase the level of risk to you or to someone else.
Where Relate are providing the counselling on behalf of an employer/funder, the employer/funder may provide Relate with a unique reference number for each client. This allows Relate to work with the employer/funder, where a client may require further sessions and Relate need to seek permission to do so by providing the unique reference number and a rationale.
In all cases, the confidential details of the sessions will not be shared with the employer/funder.
How to access the services
To access the service the parent or primary care giver working within the retail industry should contact retailTRUST on 0808 801 0808 and ask for a referral to Relate.
Please see our terms and conditions for more details.