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Lest We Forget: Lessons Learned in Ireland Following Budget 2012

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Conor Mc Guckin  and
Aoife M. O'Brien
Conor Mc Guckin*
Affiliation:
School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Aoife M. O'Brien
Affiliation:
School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
*
address for correspondence: Dr Conor Mc Guckin, School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. Email: conor.mcguckin@tcd.ie
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Abstract

School-based guidance and counselling provision suffered significantly in the austerity measures announced as part of the Irish national Budget for 2012. Through an exploration of the rapid changes visited on the profession in Ireland, this article offers a timely warning to international colleagues to engage in a service-wide reflective process regarding the nature, organisation, and efficacy of their role and profession. Highlighted are the central issues that have been experienced in Ireland, with suggestions for how colleagues could reflect upon the robustness of the profession in their own country.

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Irelandguidancecounsellingschoolprofessionrecession

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Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools , Volume 23 , Special Issue 2: Wellbeing and the prevention of violence in young people , December 2013 , pp. 273 - 279
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Copyright © The Author(s), published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd 2013 

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