Ms Siobhan Thomas:

The elitism is not only driven by the expectation that people will work for free but it does not reward people for the effort they have put in. If they do not have the money that is it - they simply cannot do it even among those who are very qualified. For example, I have left the area of clinical psychology because I could not get the experience I needed.

I have two primary degrees. I have a master's degree that I could only do because I won a scholarship, otherwise I would not have been able to afford to do it. I got first class honours in them all. I have lots of experience working with vulnerable populations. I have lived experience of overcoming mental health issues and trauma. I have all this wealth of experience. I am a highly-qualified person but because I did not have the money to volunteer on an assistant psychologist post that should be paid or to train on the doctorate that should have been funded, I was simply priced out of the system. The really important thing is that this completely disregards the work people have put in if they do not come from the right background. That is all I would add to that.