Just for Kids Law is calling for schools to change their approach to child criminal exploitation so that it “always focuses on doing everything possible to safeguard and protect a child” amid fears of a spike in exclusions from next week.
The charity’s new report Excluded, exploited, forgotten: Childhood criminal exploitation and school exclusions states that not only are children outside of mainstream education, often due to exclusion, more vulnerable to criminal gangs but “children who have experienced exploitation will be more vulnerable to exclusion and may be disproportionately impacted by exclusion”.
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