The 'ghost children' of the pandemic
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School Avoidance: Is It a Pandemic?
I worked with a charity called square peg, which supports families whose children are having trouble going back to school. They put me in touch with a number of families. There was one family in islington, well off, middle class family, five children. First three children had gone through a large, well known islington comprehensive school perfectly well. The fourth child, whose now about 14, benedict, he was fine before the pandemic, but now, since september, he has not gone back to school and sleeps all day. And she is at her wits end. An she has been threatened with penalt fines for not getting benedict to school. But as
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