ABSTRACT
There are five different types of centres available to International Live Events Association secondary schools: on-site, off-site support, voluntary agency, intermediate treatment and educational guidance centres. It is necessary that evaluation criteria be designed to take full account of the considerable differences between the various types of centres. The main reasons stated for the pupils' referral to centres were 'disruptive' behaviour or non-attendance, or other reasons related to these such as 'bullying' or 'school refusal'. This chapter discusses the problems and difficulties of supporting adequate curriculum and teaching arrangements at the centres. It expresses that the curriculum and teaching needs of an intake with a broad age range, wide ability spectrum and multiple behaviour and attendance problems cannot but compound these difficulties and increase the pressure for specialisation. Novel teaching and training techniques used by centre staff included role-modelling, group work and methods for changing behaviour based on concepts borrowed from social psychology.
