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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Anna Fazackerley

Afghan girls may be blocked from taking GCSEs as families moved from London

Headteacher Victoria Tully says she is heartbroken that the two girls may be denied the chance to sit their examinations.
Headteacher Victoria Tully says she is heartbroken that the two girls may be denied the chance to sit their examinations. Photograph: Sonja Horsman/The Observer

Two 16-year-old Afghan refugee girls will not be able to sit their GCSEs because the Home Office is moving them out of London weeks before their exams without guaranteed school places, their “heartbroken” headteacher has told the Observer.

Fulham Cross Girls School, an academy in London, enrolled 15 Afghan girls who were evacuated to the UK when the Taliban took power in 2021. They have been living in bridging accommodation in a hotel for a year and a half, but all the families were notified last week that they would be moved out of London at the end of March.

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