Employment News

Roles For School Counsellors In Reducing Prisoner Numbers

11 December 2008

I HAVE been a school counsellor in the NSW public education system for more than 30 years. Early in my career my boss, a kind and thoughtful mentor, reckoned that if I saved one person a year from going to jail, I would have earned my salary - which was then about the same as the annual cost of keeping a prisoner in jail. That cost now is $73,000 ("Plan to arrest high rates of return", December 8), while a school counsellor at the top of the salary scale earns just over $75,000... read full story