NSW Labor is urging the Government to fast-track additional school counsellors in NSW schools to combat the highest levels of youth suicide in 15 years.
\nIt follows media reports that half (50) of the 100 additional school counsellors promised by the Government will not be available until next year.
\nShadow Minister for Education Prue Car said: \u201cThis is is an enormously stressful time for the community. Young people are crying out for help and they shouldn’t have to wait for it.
\n\u201cSchools across NSW reopened months ago but the Government hasn\u2019t delivered the mental health services they need.\u201d
\nShadow Minister for Mental Health Tara Moriarty used questions on notice to reveal that no additional school counsellors have been placed in schools to assist students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
\n\u201cCommunities across NSW are facing the worst incidence of youth suicide in fifteen years. The Government needs to move much faster to deliver frontline mental health services to save lives\u201d Ms Moriarty said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NSW Labor is urging the Government to fast-track additional school counsellors in NSW schools to combat the highest levels of youth suicide in 15 years. It follows media reports that half (50) of the 100 additional school counsellors promised by the Government will not be available until next year. Shadow Minister for Education Prue Car … Continue reading “Labor calls for additional school counsellors to combat youth suicide”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}