'They have been failed': first UK school to address early-life trauma planned [theguardian.com]

Alicia Doktor 10/3/184:00 AM

The UK’s first school for children who have experienced early-life trauma such as neglect or abuse and are currently being failed by the education system could open within two years.

The short-stay school would provide children aged four to seven with therapy and education to prepare them to rejoin mainstream schooling.

The proposed Your Place academy in Norwich has had input from leading psychiatrists and psychologists and aims to create a template that could be copied elsewhere.

[For more on this story by Haroon Siddique, go to https://www.theguardian.com/wo...-life-trauma-planned]

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