Thousands of children go missing from schools every year. The problem has become worse since conversion to academies, because local authorities don't keep a central list. Some are bullied, but Education Welfare Officers don't have the resources to follow them up. Some are travellers. Some have been excluded, but no alternative offer is made. Sometimes parents forget to tell schools they are moving, so authorities lose track of them. Some are orthodox Jewish teenage boys educated in illegal schools.
I started this thread out of respect for the people who were murdered at the bakery.
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