'You feel like a failure': the parents driven to despair by their children's refusal to go to school

As a teacher and trainer in early years education, Kym Scott never imagined that she herself would one day have a child who would refuse to attend school. Scott’s daughter Libby, now 16, began struggling soon after starting at the local comprehensive secondary school.

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