Tinshill Learning Centre in Leeds, which caters for 120 pupils who havebeen excluded from mainstream schools, had allowed 14- to 16-year-oldpupils to smoke as part of a programme designed to help them quit.
Meanwhile, pupils at Freeborough Community College at Brotton, EastCleveland, are allowed to smoke in school with the consent of theirparents. The special smoking breaks are for around 30 young people aged14 to 16 who have been excluded from the mainstream school and areattending a centre close to the main site.
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