Secondary Schools: Counselling Services Debate

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Secondary Schools: Counselling Services

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Lay Magistrates
Monday 20th February 2017

(7 years, 9 months ago)

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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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We expect all schools to provide counselling services. Our counselling advice sets that out pretty clearly.

Lord Watts Portrait Lord Watts (Lab)
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Can the Minister say how children who are being educated at home are provided with counselling services?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I cannot. There is a long-standing tradition in this country of parents being able to educate their children at home. We rely on parents to ensure that where their children need counselling services, they get them.

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