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The article reports that Susie Orbach, a consultant psychotherapist, has condemned Great Britain's green paper on children’s mental health for its failure to address the part played by its own policies in the rising rates of referral to children and young people’s mental health services.

The author expresses his disappointment with the 2017 Green Paper on children and young people's mental health published by the British government, which excludes school-based counseling from the proposed mainstream provision. He reveals the burden brought by the plan on the teaching staff. The author mentions the effort of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) to improve access to counseling for children and young people.

The article reports that a new British Medical Association briefing paper warns that unregulated screening programmes by the private healthcare sector could be causing psychological harm. It calls on the Government to address the growing problem.