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by setquk 2688 days ago
I've had a lot of experience with schools and mental health issues. I have a daughter under an EHCP due to a genetic problem that causes learning difficulties and the competence is simply not there to handle even basic care in this aspect. This isn't budgetary or process related, but individual human competence is beyond terrible. This spans three "Ofsted outstanding" rated schools and two local authorities. It has got to the point that there are actually specialist charities set up to whack the schools back into place legally when they screw up over and over again.

And we're trusting them with handling general mental health? What could possibly go wrong?

Mindfulness is such a vague concept that it detatches the responsibility from mental health as well.