“The education system is a busted flush, it’s broken,” says Lawrence Dallaglio who thinks the Government isn’t doing enough for excluded children falling through the cracks. The ex-England rugby captain, who played in the 2003 World Cup-winning team, is now a pundit: he hosts the Evening Standard rugby podcast. He is also waging war on behalf of Britain’s excluded kids with his charity RugbyWorks. This week he set off on a marathon cycle ride around Europe to raise money, travelling more than 1,000km.
“The number of exclusions aren’t going down, they’re going up and up,” Dallaglio says. “The Government is ignoring the problem, because it’s easy to… we’ve got ourselves into a cycle that is pretty damning, and it’s not going to change unless we break it.”
