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Opinion: Quotes of the week

"The reality is successive governments have cut funding for youth work and then thrown their hands up in horror about kids roaming the streets and creating their own youth clubs: gangs" - Max Cruickshank, a youth worker from Hamilton, Scotland

"School choice is a myth. When parents are disappointed they turn to the appeals system, which then leads to huge amounts of bureaucracy for schools" - John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders

"In this case the impulse to protect children's identity may have gone too far" - Chris Cloke, head of child protection awareness at the NSPCC, reacts to a primary school's decision to hide the identity of children featured on its website by putting acid house-style smiley faces over their faces.

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