The Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation, which looked at the outcomes of 97 children at risk of being taken into care, found 85 per cent of the children were at or above the measured levels of their peers within three years of going to boarding school. And almost four in 10 (39 per cent) became "star performers" in their schools on a range of social, emotional and academic criteria.
Before they went to boarding school almost half the children were in the care of a single parent with a mental or physical illness and a third had been exposed to violence or abuse at home.
"Boarding schools will never be appropriate for all children, vulnerable or not," said Colin Morrison, author of Breaking Through. "But for the right children, assisted boarding can transform vulnerable lives."
- www.royalwanstead.org.uk.
