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They could provide for counseling and therapy within the schools themselves. Currently, to receive mental health services, parents usually need to initiate the

• acjohnson55 9y ago
  The schools do provide counseling and therapy. Just not nearly enough. If a child doesn't have a good advocate, they typically need to be completely debilitated by their emotional issues before getting help, since simply having horrifically traumatic life experiences is commonplace in schools like these. By that point, it's trying to put a band-aid on a deep wound. They need intensive intervention, but receive maybe an hour a week from a school psychologist who is probably handling a case load that would crush most people's souls.
• afarrell 9y ago
  Also, given that most mental health services are available only 9-5, it is going to be prohibitively expensive for a parent to pick their kid up from school regularly to drive them cross-town. Maybe there is a bus they could use, but it would be much harder than going to a wing of the school. Or (speculating whildly on something more complex than I'm representing) maybe they could set up some sort of online videochat therapy so those kids who could afford a £35 android phone and wifi could access therapy from outside school?