Latest figures from Place2Be show that one in three children in every class now has a diagnosable mental health problem.
A survey of school leaders, published by the charity and education union NAHT earlier this year, found that the number of schools commissioning professional help for children’s mental health issues rose from 36 per cent in 2016 to 66 per cent last year.
Place2Be has now been given funding, by grant-giving organisation the Wolfson Foundation, to offer 25 means-tested training bursaries for successful applicants on its child-counselling courses including a postgraduate diploma in counselling children in schools.
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