Speaking in front of MPs on the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee last week, Kathy Evans, the charity's policy director, said: "School should be safe and welcoming and concerned with welfare as well as achievement. But some children move round school places or have difficulty accessing school in the first place. Viewing school as the single and most important hub for services does not necessarily work for those children and means they risk missing out."
Evans said research carried out by The Children's Society found that amongst Traveller children the average school leaving age is 11.4-years-old. More than a third leave by the age of 10.
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