Mrs Hodge said she wanted to see targeted services such as counselling in mainstream schools. In an interview in this month's Counselling in Education, a journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, she said that schools were in the best position to give children and young people the 'skills they need to meet the challenges we all have to face in life, and that includes their emotional well-being'.
She pointed out that the Green Paper, Every Child Matters, spoke of 'other support services available to children and young people on school sites'
and that counsellors 'could well form part of that team'.
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