ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the existing evidence surrounding bullying, truancy, and school exclusion, and nature of these issues, and considering the individual, family, school and societal characteristics which may have an influence. It analyses the data from the youth survey of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) is used to investigate links between young people's educational outcomes and parental employment patterns, using a forms of capital approach to explain any associations. The chapter suggests that having a mother who is not engaged in current full-time employment offers young people some protection against negative outcomes. The experience of household worklessness had a detrimental impact upon young people's truanting behaviour, the likelihood that they excluded from school in the past year and on their attitude to education. In general the associations retained statistical significance when housing tenure was controlled for, suggesting that it is something about the experience of worklessness, over and above the impact on family socio-economic circumstances which influences school exclusion.
