Social exclusion
Knives, gangs and kids: how to break the cycle | World news
When Henrietta Imoreh was 17, she pulled a knife on a girl at her school. She was arrested and expelled. Her life trajectory seemed destined for a downward arc. Henrietta had been in eight foster homes since she was 14. At the time she threatened her schoolmate, she was living alone in a hostel, scared, …
Chaplain’s complaints of ‘stench’ created by homeless ‘arose from concern’ | World news
The chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons has said that complaints by her in internal emails about the “ongoing stench” created by homeless people sleeping at the underground station near to parliament arose from concern for their safety and that of parliamentary staff. It emerged on Tuesday that Rose Hudson-Wilkin, who was …
‘My pupil was expelled for breaking a teacher’s fingers. I have to help him’ | Society
Monday I spend the morning completing admin for the students I tutor, who have all been expelled from schools and referral units for behavioural problems. After completing weekly reports on them for last week, I plan the week’s lessons, mark some work and fill in my timesheets. As a self-employed tutor working for a local …
