School counsellor Gill Harvey said the clinic “has just come along at the right time” after the Covid-19 pandemic affected young people’s mental health.
“A lot of the young people that come through our clinic, I know them already from school, which is fantastic, and we do lots of referrals from school to the teen clinic,” she said.
Summer Barge, a school nurse in West Northamptonshire, said her work in school and at the clinic covered a wide variety of health issues.
“We’re specialist public health community nurses. We do sleep, continence, diet, emotional health, sexual health advice, we cover a big holistic amount for children, families, parents,” she said.
“Our referrals, you can imagine, are quite complex and cover a lot.”
She is also a former Daventry school pupil which she said helped because “you know the community”.
