Thirteen-year-old Maria used to turn up at her pupil referral unit in the mornings already drunk on vodka. She had slipped through the cracks in the support system. Her mum had learning difficulties, and her stepdad, who had fathered her sister’s baby, was molesting her. Niki Panayiodou, a SENCO at Orchardside School in Enfield, north Alternative provision turnaround unit