Schools are having to take on more and more responsibility for the pastoral care of students, meaning that life for the professionals in this field is increasingly challenging, says Daniel Sobel

It’s 7:45am and you are already swamped with catch-up paperwork from yesterday – a referral form, team around the child meeting minutes, and then there’s the 17 emails from staff and nine from parents you need to respond to, and all this before you go down to breakfast club to see if student X has actually turned up as he had promised.

The coffee in your mug is now cold but you down it anyway, it’s caffeinated drink number three of the day.

At break time you have a line of students outside your door complaining, crying – including those who have been sent to you by those teachers whose automatic reaction is always to refer everything to you.

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