"Figure 4: Sexual abuse has overtaken physical abuse in recent years as being the most common abuse-related concern counselled","" "UK, year ending March 2010 to year ending March 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. The number and reasons for counselling sessions can be affected by Childline campaigns, and other external factors such as high-profile news stories. 2. All data relates to the number of counselling sessions delivered by Childline (as opposed to the number of children speaking to Childline). The same child may have multiple counselling sessions with Childline. 3. All data relates to counselling sessions where the young person talked about their own worries. Data from counselling sessions where young people had concerns about another child are not included in these breakdowns. 4. All data relates to the “main concern” young people talked about in each counselling session. This is the issue that children and young people talked about most in their counselling session. However, children may talk about a range of different issues over the course of a counselling session." "Unit","%" "","" "","Neglect","Emotional abuse","Physical abuse","Sexual abuse" "Apr 2018 to Mar 2019","2.459","19.776","33.219","44.546" "Apr 2013 to Mar 2014","4.596","13.132","41.828","40.443" "Apr 2009 to Mar 2010","4.752","5.219","50.420","39.609"