One 13-year-old from Birmingham describes how he was targeted by a drugs gang after being excluded.
Figures from 37 councils revealed there were more than 1,200 suspensions and exclusions of at-risk children between 2021 and 2023Hundreds of vulnerable pupils known to be targets for criminal gangs are being excluded from schools in the West Midlands.
One 13-year-old boy, Will, was classed as "at-risk" by social workers in Birmingham, but was left without a school place for more than a year."They wanted me to go to a bando [a drug house] and sell for them. It's never like near you. It's always like Manchester, Tottenham, London, all of that. You go there for a few weeks... and you sell all types of drugs to all types of people.
"As long as you're getting the money it's fine. But if you lose something, you've got a big problem. You could have people on to you for debt or could have people wanting to kill you and all that.
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