If school exclusions are not to blight the futures of African-Caribbean young people, strong local support has to be provided. According to a report by leading educationalists, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, African-Caribbean young people who are permanently excluded from school at some point in their lives, can easily drift into crime. And exclusion
Theme: Managed migration
Asylum-seeking children face being separated from their parents and placed in care under new powers
A family in Bolton, whose campaign to stay in Britain has won strong local support, is one of the first to face new powers to separate asylum-seeking children from their parents. Powers introduced under last year’s Asylum Act, which allow the Home Office to cut off support to families with children whose asylum claims have
Supporting asylum seeker and refugee students – new developments
Last month, the General Teaching Council’s Achieve network held its largest event so far, a conference looking at issues related to supporting asylum seeker and refugee students. Sixty delegates attended the conference in London on 11 May 2005 and a similar number had to be turned away due to the high demand. The agenda for
Mounting criticism of detention of asylum-seeking children
In the last month, there have been a number of critical reports published into the detention of asylum-seeking children in the UK and the provision of care for them. Yesterday, Alvaro Gil-Robles, the European Commissioner for Human Rights, commented that ‘it is worrying… to note both the frequency and the duration of the detention of
Primary school children rally to save their friends from deportation
St John’s RC Primary School, Rochdale, is to hold a rally today as part of its campaign to prevent the deportation of seven asylum-seeking children and their families. School children will join a procession along the streets of Rochdale to a local church, where a mass will be held in support of children’s rights. Children
National declaration against deportations of school students launched
Campaigners are calling for teachers, students and others in education to support a national declaration against the deportation of children and young people in schools and colleges. The last year has seen a wave of spontaneous protests by school students against deportations. At Mayfield school, Portsmouth, students led a campaign in support of Lorin Sulaiman,
Plymouth school students detained after escaping racist harassment
Two asylum-seeking students who were forced to leave their school because of harassment are now facing deportation. Last September, a police investigation was launched at Parkside Community College in Plymouth, after a group of forty White students chanted ‘P*kis Out’ en masse in the school playground. The level of racism in the school had been
Alem’s story
A school explores contradictions in attitudes to asylum seekers using video art. How would secondary school students react to finding out that one of their school friends was to be deported? And how would this help them reassess their beliefs about racism, belonging and asylum? As a Greater Manchester secondary teacher, I have been working
The fight for community begins in Leicester
The threatened Council take-over of a Leicester community centre illustrates the contradictions in the government’s ‘community cohesion’ agenda. The withdrawal of funds from the hugely successful Highfields Youth and Community Centre (HYCC), in inner-city Leicester, has become the focus for a strong local campaign aimed at challenging the whole approach of the City Council and
A new anti-racist toolkit for youth workers
I Ain’t Racist But… aims to give youth workers the knowledge and tools ‘to respond constructively to racist incidents and deal appropriately with victims and perpetrators’. Written by Mandeep Rupra of the Racial Harassment Action Group Monitoring Project at Leicester Racial Equality Council, the stated intent of the toolkit is to encourage youth workers to