The article highlights the experiences of introducing an educational programme about social services in schools, with a focus on the perspectives of children and young people. The aim is to describe how the students’ knowledge of and attitudes towards social services have changed after participating in the teaching activities as well as how the students reflect on the teaching and on their acquired knowledge. The results show that the students appreciated the information they had received. They emphasized the value of knowing the social services, learning about what the social services do, and learning that children and young people can contact the social services when they are in need of help or support. The results also indicate that the students’ knowledge of the social services was strengthened and that their attitudes towards the social services were more positive after participating in the teaching activities. The students themselves described how their image of the social services had changed and the social services was described as a possible alterna-tive for help-seeking, should they be in need of help or support.