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Policy & Practice: Judgment call

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THE DILEMMA

How can you best support a 13-year-old boy with a family history of mental health issues, who is exhibiting severe behavioural problems while attending an extended mainstream school?

An extended school's co-ordinator tells how she ensured appropriate support was identified and offered to the pupil, who may otherwise have faced exclusion.

A boy at our school was displaying horrendous behavioural problems in school and things were going from bad to worse when he came to talk to me about things. I kept feeling that we must be able to help him in some way because he is a bright, self-aware and articulate boy. How best to help him was a real dilemma.

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