at encouraging children who often truant or have been excluded from school to get back into learning, and it's proven to be popular so far, as phillip norton reports. we are on the road in grimsby. this is a school assistant principal with a former gang member. when students don't go to school, they take the school to the students. are you all right? all right? are you ready for today? yeah. come on, then. some of them struggled to regulate their behaviour in mainstream. are you looking forward to today? yes. attendance is also a problem for some of them. and some students admit mainstream is not for them. the students are among the most vulnerable young people in north east lincolnshire. lessons can be done outside the home, but today they will be outside a boxing session. t is one of their mentors.