ABSTRACT
What is of key importance to both case studies is the transparent and honest way in which the profiles and individual histories have been presented, including inherent obstacles and hurdles that posed barriers to improvements in the child's learning and emotional well-being. Anna is a five-year-old girl who lives with her mum, dad and elder brother. Dad is a mechanic and mum manages the accounts for her father's company. Mum also attends a 'Hair and Beauty' course at a local college one and a half days per week. Over the first half of the spring term staff recognised a dramatic deterioration in Anna's positive behaviour, being replaced with similar behaviours to that which she displayed the previous year in Nursery. At the point of Anna's fixed term exclusion staff had reached breaking point, behaviour was unpredictable and in response, management approaches were not consistent as every effort was made to control the situation.
