This week saw 4 year old McEnzie Dunkley permanently excluded from his new school Sacred Heart Primary School in Preston, Lincs

The reason?

Teachers say he attacks them, flicks light switches and won’t do as he is told. His Mom says he is being treated like  a “Teenage thug.” And always does as he is told at home .

So who is to blame here?

The 4 year old who is typical of the 5% of children now carrying a formal diagnosis of conditions like ADHD, ADD, Asperger’s syndrome or Autism and 20 % of children world wide who are exhibiting similar behaviours. Who very often lose the plot on just bingeing out on some additive hidden in their food intake for example?

Or is it  the school who are quoting that the child needs ‘specialist intervention’ – perhaps from  a specialist behavioural unit  like one from the South of England who had recently achieved excellent results from implementing an innovative behavioural support programme commended by OFSTED, the government department for standards in education. However, they  were made to discontinue the programme because of severe cutbacks in spite of children’s improvements on the programme?

Or is it the parents themselves, many not able to go out to work as they live in dread of a “Zero tolerance policy” phone call home from school to come and collect their child who has sussed out that it is easier to have a melt down at school  and be sent home to play on the play station that to sit in a classroom that is not designed to accommodate hypersensitive behaviours?

Well, McEnzie may only be 4 years old but he is certainly highlighting what the true costs of public cut backs are today!

When are we going to listen to what a generation in crisis are telling us?

For families and professionals  needing help with these  problems the first ever  free social networking site for behavioural problems  with behaviour support resources is now available. Stories on the site from parents and professionals are now highlighting how bad the situation is and what can be effectively done about it .

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·         Every year 40,000 children and adolescents in Britain are prescribed some form of anti-depressant. (NICE)

·         Government figures show there were 9,880 expulsions from primary, secondary and special needs schools in 2003-4, up from 9,290 in 2002-3. (BBC news)

·         A recent Mori Poll cites a six-month study by the Metropolitan Police, which estimates that 40% of all robberies, 25% of burglaries, and 20% of thefts in London are committed by children aged between 10 and 16, during school hours.

·         Autism has mysteriously risen by 287%

·         The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) estimates that as many as 500,000 children in the UK, one in 20, may have ADHD and, of these, 100,000 may be seriously affected.

·         Prescriptions of Ritalin - rose to 359,100 last year, a rise of 344,400 since 1995. Figures from the Prescriptions Pricing Authority reveal that there has been a 180-fold increase in prescriptions since 1991 when only 2,000 were issued in England.

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