Sir, – There are major strategic gaps in the Government’s national pilot for school-based counsellors and psychotherapists. One-to-one counselling is not provided for Deis schools in large urban areas. This is a remarkable omission given the high levels of need regarding trauma and adverse childhood experiences in these contexts.
The scope of the national primary pilot, currently confined to only seven rural counties, is further subject to an indefensible restriction of only six counselling sessions per child. It is to be emphasised that there is not a shortage of counsellors and therapists for a significant expansion of counsellors and therapists into secondary schools and urban Deis contexts. The Irish Council for Psychotherapy alone, now brought into the national pilot, has over 1,000 therapists.
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