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Every school should have a proper counsellor, not just a poster on a wall

Education ● Healthcare National by mrs_k_teaches · 🏷️ 1. Concerned Citizen · Fringe · 4 months ago
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A poster saying its OK not to be OK is not mental health provision. It is a poster.

Every school should have a trained counsellor available at least 3 days a week. Not a teaching assistant who did a two day course. A qualified counsellor who knows what they are doing and has time to do it properly.

Children are waiting months for CAMHS referrals.

By the time they get seen what started as anxiety has become something much harder to treat. Schools are where the problems are first visible. Early support there could prevent half the crisis referrals further down the line.

This saves money. More importantly it saves children.

mrs_k_teaches 🏠 Borough Councillor Fringe

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My grandson has autism. The school's been brilliant but his teacher told us she's had no specific training and everything she knows came from Google and a colleague. That's not a complaint about the teacher, it's a complaint about the system. You can't ask schools to do this and then not train them. Sets everyone up to fail.
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Not sure a counsellor's the only answer, there's overlap with SEN and safeguarding and it's all underfunded. Even with funding, getting the right model in place will be tricky. But the poster-on-the-wall approach is plainly not working.
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I had anxiety at school and didn't know that's what it was until I was an adult. A counsellor would have changed a lot.
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