Mental health and counselling services for primary school pupils only continued until March due to orders from former Education Minister Michelle McIlveen, departmental papers reveal
Equine therapy was among the services that schools provided through the Healthy Happy Minds programme
She issued a ministerial direction to officials on 21 June 2022 to spend £2.25m on the scheme from September to December 2022. The Department of Education document said that the scheme "did not have budget cover for the period September 2022 to March 2023 and the expenditure was approved by ministerial direction".
Katie Sparham told BBC News NI that she had provided help to pupils who had suffered things like trauma, anxiety, bullying and bereavement.
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