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Covid trauma: Flexible and agile approach needed to avoid exclusions

A “heightened risk” of school exclusions has been created by the Covid-19 lockdown and must be countered with flexible approaches based on collaboration and communication, a research report has concluded.

A “heightened risk” of school exclusions has been created by the Covid-19 lockdown and must be countered with flexible approaches based on collaboration and communication, a research report has concluded.

It comes as a second study warns that the system of exclusion in the UK is broken and deprives children of access to adequate education while often putting them in mental and physical harm’s way.

The first piece of research is a discussion report from the University of Oxford’s Excluded Lives Research Team which says that services around the child must be “agile and flexible” if we are to meet the needs of the most at-risk students as they return to school.

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