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Wales Online
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Richard Youle

How best to help young people with serious social, emotional and behavioural difficulties

New ways of helping pupils with severe social, emotional and behavioural difficulties are being explored by education chiefs in Swansea.

Only 7% of young people with these difficulties, including those who have been excluded from schools, have returned to mainstream education since 2016.

That was the year Swansea Council overhauled its provision - known as 'education other than at school' - for this group of young people. The 2016 shake-up led to the creation of the Maes Derw pupil referral unit in Cockett, which opened last year.

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