Drug Education News

The Guardian has a piece about work being done with young people at risk of exclusion in Wigan:

“They also need time spent on them,” says headteacher Dr Ted Walker. “They’re suffering from inadequate parenting in our most extreme cases. The parents might have mental-health problems, or be drug users - both in some cases. What’s remarkable is how quickly their kids can change with some care and attention. They don’t come back into school perfect, but there are little acts of transformation going on.”

The piece, it seems to me, describes very well the sort of contribution that schools and children’s services can make to the wellbeing agenda that was discussed at length last week.