ABSTRACT
Tackling the school-level problems of exclusion, truancy, disaffection and, more generally, the alienation and difficulties of social adjustment of young people, is beyond the power of schools or the school system alone. Chapters 1 and 3 made plain the forces at work and the multiple deprivations often found in the domestic settings of those with challenging behaviour and ‘self-inflicted’ school failure. The agencies implicated in this are many, extending from mental health through social services to criminal justice as well as charities, some of which are contracted to carry out statutory work.
