A schools improvement officer tells how, as a headteacher, he had todecide whether or not to let two of his pupils go home to what couldhave been a dangerous or neglectful situation.
- I'm a school improvement officer now, and I come into contact with awide range of people, including teachers, headteachers and parents.
But it was in my last school where I was headteacher that I had thehardest call I ever had to make. It was a very difficult case.
Two of my pupils, aged nine and seven, were from a very fragmentedfamily where both parents had a history of drug abuse. The mum and dadhad split up, and the two boys were staying with their mum. Over aperiod of time the mother's condition had deteriorated.
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