Uncovering Britain’s secret history of bussing ethnic minority children

Shabina Aslam's exhibition Bussing Out at the Theatre in the Mill Bradford University is on until April. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

Shabina Aslam was a seven-year-old in Bradford when she was placed on a bus and moved out to a white-majority suburban school, where she and her brother were placed in the special needs department.

This is despite the pair – whose family had migrated from Kenya as part of the exodus of Indians from east Africa – being fluent in several languages.