Mr. Jim Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what child guidance facilities are available to meet the needs of schoolchildren.
§ Sir George YoungChild guidance services are provided on a multi-disciplinary basis. Staff of different disciplines—normally drawn from the NHS child psychiatric service and child health service, local authority social services and the school psychological service of the local education authority—together provide facilities for the assessment and treatment of children and, additionally, consultative services to other agencies. In most areas the services are provided either by a child guidance team collectively identified as such, or by a multi-disciplinary hospital-based child psychiatric team, working in some cases with the school psychological service.