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‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics

Archived version: https://archive.ph/UiD8s

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

One “deeply vulnerable” woman came to him in great distress because the local authority was taking her to court for not sending her 14-year-old daughter into school.

“Her daughter wasn’t going in because she was pregnant. She was involved in county lines [drug trafficking] and she was being sexually abused by a drug dealer,” he said.

Wtf England? Whoever set up that needs to be fired.