A lesson too late for the learning minister?

As a guidance counsellor I always consulted the school maintenance person and the cleaner.

In fact I listened to everybody who came in contact with my students. They all had an expertise that was different to mine. Like all guidance counsellors mine happened to be in adolescent counselling and careers guidance – a support now needed by young people more than ever.

What’s everybody’s business is nobody’s. The Department of Education’s whole school guidance strategy is grand in theory but in it doesn’t work.