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Serious incidents between pupils in the school holidays

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Foxesandsquirrels · 22/07/2023 19:19

Out of curiosity, how do schools go about dealing with serious incidents in the school holidays? As an example, things like serious fights between pupils, pupils being caught shoplifting, arrested etc. Things that would get you, at the very least, some sort of suspension in term time. I don't expect schools to sort this out, but this sort of thing ends up getting dragged into the school eventually. Do they just come back in Sept to deal with the collateral damage? Do social services take over or is there some sort of DSL on duty the whole time?

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Foxesandsquirrels · 23/07/2023 21:49

cantkeepawayforever · 23/07/2023 21:46

I would say that the situation is that all agencies - social services, police, housing, the criminal justice system, family courts,CAMHS, Special Schools, local authorities, health service - are ALL peddling their hardest and doing what they can with the resources they have available. Nobody is sitting around saying ‘we’ll relax and let schools pick it up’, everyone is working hard on a huge caseload with too few staff and high staff turnover.

Things fall to schools because, when all the services that they should be able to refer on to have no capacity, the fact remains that schools see a child every day, and it is impossible to see a child in need and say ‘you know, as nobody has capacity to see you - for no fault of theirs - we’ll just ignore your needs’.

Every part of the system is doing their best. Just the capacity doesn’t meet the level of need.

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I would agree.

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