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Too many teachers are seeing their pupils suffer with poor mental health
Children’s lives are being blighted by austerity and poverty in towns and cities up and down the country, writes KEVIN COURTNEY

“IT’S like a slow-motion car crash that I am powerless to stop and can’t bear to watch or be part of any more.”

This was a heartbreaking response from one of our members responding to a survey on the surge of mental health problems among young people.

The results of a questionnaire, conducted before our annual conference in Liverpool this week, make harrowing reading.

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