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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Sally Weale Education correspondent

Former girls’ school in London to reopen as pioneering youth hub

A grand school building
St Martin-in-the-Fields announced last year that it would close because of declining pupil numbers. Photograph: handout

One of the UK’s first girls’ schools is to reopen in September as the first of a series of youth hubs for young people at risk of falling out of education and into crime.

St Martin-in-the-Fields high school for girls in Tulse Hill, south London, will be reinvented as Oasis St Martin’s Village, offering mentoring and one-to-one therapeutic care for vulnerable young people in danger of being excluded.

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