Contextual factors, such as support and understanding from family, friends, school and healthcare providers, influenced their ability to manage their illness.
But instead of getting support and understanding, she was excluded from school.
However, in the 1990s, they re-emerged, finding appreciation and understanding from rock audiences schooled in Faust's successors, such as the 80s German group Einstürzende Neubauten.
Thanks to City of Sanctuary, that understanding is now being passed from school to school, from town to town, spreading like marmalade across the UK.
But even more upsetting is the stigma and discrimination kinship carers face – when they are told they are not entitled to support, or the children's behavioural difficulties are blamed on bad parenting, or when kinship children get excluded from school without an understanding of the traumatic root causes of their challenging behaviour.
Two studies aimed at understanding the time course of alienation from school and school factors that may influence alienation from school during early adolescence.
As we move towards a post-2015 development agenda, a broader conceptualisation of school access is likely to become more relevant, demanding a focus away from a dichotomous understanding of school access to one where it is understood as a continuum, a process in which children enter, remain, progress, complete primary school, and transition to higher levels of education.
Perhaps the final straw will come when the boss is less than understanding when the kid is sick and needs to stay home from school.
What is missing from this standards-based reform strategy is the understanding of "school culture" or "organizational culture" (Fullan, 2006).
Wilshaw said Ofsted inspectors "have become aware of potentially high numbers of pupils whose names are being deleted from school admissions registers without either the schools or the local authorities having an accurate understanding of where those pupils have gone".
