‘Kids don’t have a union’: Experts slam unsafe school suspensions

Chain Reaction Foundation executive director Rumbi Mabambe was asked to provide her insight on the system's need for change around the untold number of kids at risk of being sent home to unsafe environments following the coronial report of 15-year-old taree school girl Harmony who's 75 days of at-home suspension from school contributed to her suicide. 

Troubled kids who are suspended from school need better access to supervised, safe alternatives to harmful situations at home, experts warn, amid fresh revelations the NSW government is failing to provide care to tens of thousands of students. 

Rumbi Mabambe, executive director of Mt Druitt-based charity Chain Reaction Foundation, has seen first-hand how kids with domestic violence and substance abuse backgrounds start school at a vast disadvantage to their peers. 

Rumbi Mabambe says NSW public schools are on the cusp of a "chronic disengagement crisis" 

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https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new-south-wales-education/youth-workers-behaviour-experts-demand-urgent-overhaul-of-broken-school-suspension-system/news story/7c34b3b0aacef4656a4bb02d1bfd2992