The ESN School Leaver

One child in ten needs special educational help, and two in every hundred are very backward and intellectually subnormal. For such children, the transition between school and work can be very traumatic. In this article M. A. Jerrold and R. Fox, headmaster and industrial training master respectively of Cliffdale Secondary School, Portsmouth, describe an ambitious project designed to help the ESN and educationally immature school leaver over the transition.