Youth Council wants more guidance counselling posts restored in Budget 2018

The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) has recommended that Budget 2018 restore the last 200 out of the 600 guidance counselling posts lost to secondary schools in 2012.

The council wants €12.6m extra invested next year to fund the jobs, in addition to 400 posts already being restored when schools re-open this month.

The NYCI pre-budget submission also urges the Government to spend €20m bringing child and adolescent mental health service staffing up to levels proposed in national mental health policies.