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Originally Posted by Ammi

..the thing is though, that not the same action is taken when it comes to other things and when a child or family is really desperately in need of outside/social care help...there is no help at all or very little when there really is a huge cause for concern with a child and concern that does have many aspects of it, not just an incorrectly spelled word or one incident which would be an easy mistake for a 10yr old to make..as TS, I think it was who said, it's something that would not probably present itself like that anyway..I 'live in a terrorist house', 'I am a terrorist' etc...we're just a very small school in comparison to many town or city schools who must have many, many more families and children who really do need care and are screaming for help... but we have children with behaviour/violence issues, consistent and persistent ones and children trying to hurt people, really, really seriously hurt them but we're told almost daily that there is no help for that child/that family available and the thing to do is to actually wait until they do hurt someone, until that awful thing does happen...because it 'all seems to be under control'....and young people/young teenagers trying to harm themselves but no help there either because 'it's a phase that teenagers go through'....a great focus it seems on possible radicalisation and of course if it's a Muslim child/family it has to be investigated and with no time to waste because we can't be too careful can we...but nothing...nothing..?...in any other area, or very, very little at all...

This is so depressing.