Limits to keeping students safe [leadermagazine.co.uk]
- Published: 22 March 2010
How much responsibility can schools take for students' safety? A recent case (Webster v Ridgeway Foundation School) suggests that the courts, at least, do understand the difficulties schools face in real life.
The case, which involved a rural school, as ever turned on its facts. The school had, in a relatively short time, received an intake of pupils of Asian heritage.
There had been some ugly events outside and inside the school, some white pupils felt that the staff were not prepared to tackle the aggressive behaviour of some of the Asian boys. The staff did not perceive the situation in the same way.
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